[Tamas sniffs, unable to meet Tim's eye.] I did something very bad, Tim. I... I forced my way into someone else's mind. Some... someone I love. I'm scared.
[Tamas folds himself into Tim's arms, needing the hug. His emotions are wrapped up under the tightest shields he can manage.] I sensed something was wrong with Tim. I told Dick and Jason but... it only got worse. He got up in the middle of the night and I... I went to check on him.
It was wrong, so wrong. I could feel something cold and horrible in his head. It was.... it was strangling his love for Dick and making him think things he shouldn't. It was like a weed taking over the garden, suffocating everything else. I promised Tim I'd never.... but I couldn't convince him to let me in. [Tears trickle down his cheek and he bites back a little sob.] I had to break my promise and go into his mind without his permission.
I... I killed the seed the vampires planted in his mind but... Tim, I forced my way into his head. I did the thing he fears the most. [His shoulders hitch with another sob] I can't... I did it to save him but I'm not better than the ones who did this to him.
[The Flash flops down onto the grass near the crying Tim.] All-those-questions whoamI, whatamforit's all meaningless in-the-end. You just keep-goinguntilsomethingbiggerstopsyou. Boom. No-more-reason-to-cry. Imeanwhyworry? In-one-hundred-years we'll all be dead andnoonewillcare what-we-did.
I care! [Tamas snaps back, fierce in the face of this stranger's apathy.] I have family, people I love and I have to make sure they're safe. I don't care about a hundred years from now, i care about them. If I can't control my gifts I'm a danger to them.
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It was wrong, so wrong. I could feel something cold and horrible in his head. It was.... it was strangling his love for Dick and making him think things he shouldn't. It was like a weed taking over the garden, suffocating everything else. I promised Tim I'd never.... but I couldn't convince him to let me in. [Tears trickle down his cheek and he bites back a little sob.] I had to break my promise and go into his mind without his permission.
I... I killed the seed the vampires planted in his mind but... Tim, I forced my way into his head. I did the thing he fears the most. [His shoulders hitch with another sob] I can't... I did it to save him but I'm not better than the ones who did this to him.
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[The Flash flops down onto the grass near the crying Tim.] All-those-questions whoamI, whatamforit's all meaningless in-the-end. You just keep-goinguntilsomethingbiggerstopsyou. Boom. No-more-reason-to-cry. Imeanwhyworry? In-one-hundred-years we'll all be dead andnoonewillcare what-we-did.
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