[ Matt cringes and covers his mouth with a tight fist. He's not going to cry, not in front of Stick, not again. It will only make the old man push harder. He was always good at sniffing out weakness and using it to his advantage. He knows faintly that Foggy has a hand on his knee, that he's trying to help him stay calm, but he can hardly think. He'd like everything to stop, now. ]
Go away Stick.
[ Matt can practically feel Stick standing there and hear the sharp inhale of breath he takes just before he chuckles. He's not really there of course, but the memory is so close it gets filled in any way.
"Of course you know, I knew you did. Scruffy here doesn't get it. He's as naive as they come joining this fight. He's even softer than you were as a kid, mentally and physically! You can sit here and listen to him talk about feelings as much as you want but you know people like him don't win wars. It's up to us Matty, to those who were born with the right kind of grit, to keep evil from winning so people like your idiot boyfriend can keep living in their happy little worlds.
Do you really think he knows better how to keep people alive or to make you strong than I do?"
Matt's face wrinkles as fights to think of words. Anything to get him to stop. ]
This is all rich coming from the guy who died right before the final battle of his war.
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Go away Stick.
[ Matt can practically feel Stick standing there and hear the sharp inhale of breath he takes just before he chuckles. He's not really there of course, but the memory is so close it gets filled in any way.
"Of course you know, I knew you did. Scruffy here doesn't get it. He's as naive as they come joining this fight. He's even softer than you were as a kid, mentally and physically! You can sit here and listen to him talk about feelings as much as you want but you know people like him don't win wars. It's up to us Matty, to those who were born with the right kind of grit, to keep evil from winning so people like your idiot boyfriend can keep living in their happy little worlds.
Do you really think he knows better how to keep people alive or to make you strong than I do?"
Matt's face wrinkles as fights to think of words. Anything to get him to stop. ]
This is all rich coming from the guy who died right before the final battle of his war.
[ "And who finished that war in my place?" ]