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15th metal . private messages

[ Private to Chris ]

Do I have to kill him?

[ Guess who just woke up and saw the kerfuffle. Zero to rage in thirty-one seconds. ]

[ Private to Cassel ]

Are you well enough to make metals? Because if so, I'm going to ask for pewter, iron and steel.

If not...

[ He doesn't finish that. ]

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Your powers.

Yeah.

[He chews his lip nervously.]

Is - that not a good thing?

No. It's good. I'm glad.

[Oh. He sighs a little, pleased.]

Yeah. I think I am too.

[Which is surprising, really.]

Will it... hurt again?

No, I don't think so. I still have what I made before, the suit, like what Kon has. I should be okay.

Good.

[ Though he can't shake the feeling that that's weird, making powers so that they don't pull and push back on you. ]

I can make you something. If you want. If it works.

If you want.

I do, stupid, or I wouldn't have offered.

There's nothing much I want. I've never had much. It's easy to live without.

Cassel, why don't you want anyone to take revenge for you?

But I like making things for people. [He likes, on occasion, doing things for people he cares about.]

I just - it hurt. And I know it might feel better for a second making him hurt too, but it won't last. I'd rather be doing something I give a shit about than wasting any more time on him.

It's not your energy, it's mine.

I'm not - trying to ignore you. [ He wants to understand. To try and tame what he's feeling. ]

I know you're not.

But you're not a - a proxy, I can't just use you to hurt people so I don't have to. I know you want to, but it feels the same.

He said things to me that - I know what he was trying to do, I know what he's trying to do to Chris and you and everyone, he wants to make us crawl. Admit that we're no better than he is. He knew people would try to hurt him. He wants that too.

But he's dirt compared to us. No point killing dirt.

I can't just ignore this, Cassel.

[ His tone is genuinely contrite. He can see that it would be better for Cassel for Zane to ignore this, to shrug it off, move on. But Zane is stuck. He's not sure how. ]

Then you'll have to figure something else out. Something that won't hurt anyone.

[Which is, he knows, a lot to ask. He's asking it anyway.]

[ He nods, wordlessly. Don't go after Two-Face. He can, at least, make sure he doesn't do that. ]

Thanks.

I'm glad you woke up.

[He had been worried, for a while, that Zane wouldn't.]

I'll always wake up.

[He hugs Zane again, wordlessly. He knows, or wants to believe, anyway.]

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15th metal . private messages

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