OTC 33.3--How was your day?

[mrsarcastic003]

...Pretty much the first thing the guidance counselor asks when I get into her office. I know what she's doing. She's trying to put me at ease, and make it just that much easier for me to trust her, so that maybe--just maybe--I'll finally tell her who's hurting me.

And I can't.

Because this scar came from Clayface!Jason, and that one is from

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[cisskabob]

::hugs:: Love you.

[mrsarcastic003]

Love you too, Ciss. I'm okay. Just--stressed.

[cisskabob]

I know. I wish I could help.

[mrsarcastic003]

You do plenty to help. I mean that.

[silent_jericho]

[Would you, if you did it all over again, choose a different way? You're gifted, but your gifts aren't quite like me and Vic and Gar. You could have applied them elsewhere. I'm not trying to be difficult, just flipping a new perspective your way.]

[mrsarcastic003]

Ask a hard question, why don't you?

No, I wouldn't choose a different way--even if I knew everything then that I know now. Which--possibly makes me a bit of a horrible person, but... I like who I am now, despite everything it took to get me here, and how difficult it makes some things.

[silent_jericho]

[Then you are at peace with yourself, as much as you can be in the light of all you have faced, and that is a rare and precious thing.]

*smiling encouragingly*

[mrsarcastic003]

Um--thanks? I do my best.

[mrsarcastic003]

::snort:: I like my male bits exactly where they are, thanks.

We're all big boys now.

[mrsarcastic003]

Thank you.

I know. But they sometimes make exceptions when childhood pressure or, well, I think they'd term it abuse, is involved--even for adults.