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"You don't get it, Rory..." Broen leaned over further, moving his arm so that his face was hovering over hers. "It's not about being powerful for the sake of swinging my dick around at people. It's about not having to worry that I might piss somebody off and they melt my head or mind control me off a building and there's nothing I can do about it. It's about fuckin... feeling like I'm in control. Like I'm not just another victim waiting to happen."
 
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he was a little close for comfort, but Rory still didn't move. She stared at him, searching his face for something. When she found it, she nodded a little.

"Okay. We'll find you something to protect you, at the very least. But Broen — and don't you dare yell at me for this — you need to get into therapy, man. As much as I'd love to be qualified enough to tell you why you're in control and methods of feeling in control when people are trying to break you down, I'm not. And I really really don't want to see you going down the 'blow my brains out' path. I'd miss you."
 
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Broen laughed a little. "That's such a wild fucking thing to hear. That I'd be missed. Maybe missed like a tumor. But not just missed."

He sat up, rolling over until he was nearly off the bed. He clasped his hands together and sighed. "If I could go back, I'd have told fuckin Angelo to shoot again once I hit the ground. Gotten the shadow before it could..." He sighed. "If I do one more good deed and get my asshole torn apart for it, I'm gonna go back to being a fucking supervillain."
 
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Ah. Good. Rory didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting Broen when she moved her arm behind her head and crossed one leg over the other.

"I'd miss you, dweeb. Just miss you. But if you go all supervillain on me again I'm going to have to annoyingly foil your plans and convince you to stop being a shit." Then she peaked an eye open.

"I know it sucks. When you do good things... there's always a high probability that you're going to get fucked over — it's true. I wish I had some advice to give about that, but there really isn't any. Stick to looking out for yourself if it makes you happier."

And though Rory might have liked to explain why doing good could still be good, she figured Broen didn't want to hear it, and she was entirely too exhausted to fight that battle.

That didn't stop her from sulking over it.
 
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Broen stood up slowly and walked over to the wall. "I don't know what I wanna do, Rory. Right now I'm kind of up in the air and I don't have a way to figure out where I should be going. If I'm being honest? I'd always liked the idea as a kid of oeaching other people how to use their powers better."

"It's not heroic, for sure. But it'd have been steady work and my powers meant I was uniquely suited to it. The School fucked me up though, and now even if I wanted to I couldn't do that."

And the lingering, unspoken assertion that he didn't want to anymore. "I, uh... appreciate you coming to check in on me though. I'll be here a few more days, I don't know where I'll go after that though."
 
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"Not true," Rory said about the idea of teaching not being heroic. Then she laughed a little. "Okay, by definition it's not, but when the fuck did anyone use hero by definition back home? Teaching's noble."

But Rory could get why he wouldn't want to be a teacher now. She didn't wince at the thought, but she almost wanted to.

But time was winding down, Broen looked and sounded exhausted and Rory wasn't about to spend her entire night in his room. She got up. "Maybe you'll move into the school? Or find your own place."

It was her turn to bite her lip. "You don't have to go... I know you like your independence but..." But Rory didn't finish the thought. She shook her head and gave him one final hug. "If I'm honest I hope you don't go back to the guest house, even when it's offered to you."

Rory gave Broen a friendly kiss on the cheek before she slipped past him and out of the room.
 
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