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"This is Newt — still alive... still hanging in there."

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[groupiedrifter]

[Newt's gaze darkens, jaw twitching.

Ah, so that's how it all is.]

Hermann wants nothing to do with me. He's been avoiding me pretty much every chance he gets — so yeah, Daisy, he does know, he knows everything, because I told him when everyone said I should — and he's turned his back on me for all of it. So can you just do me a big favor and pull the band-aid off like him, instead of giving me cutesy gifts and pretending you give a shit about me?

[She's just pretending. She's watching you. Waiting to see if you're a liability. She's proven untrustworthy. He steps closer, his eyes shining wet now, body thrumming with energy as old, deep cuts reopen in his head. They dig their claws in further.]

I hurt one person on accident because he used his powers on me when I was unconscious on the floor, and you have the nerve to look at me like I'm a problem? You were a literal monster on Gyeongje, and I still stood by you, because you were just sick, and it was nothing you could control.

Should I be asking how many people you've hurt with your powers?

Would that be something a friend does?

[He pushes past her to leave, arms folded protectively over his chest, his steps urgent. Get away, his instinct says. Don't bother looking back. He knew she saw him different. He should've known the kindness was just a cover; shoulda coulda woulda. He needs to be more careful about people he lets into his life. Always just settles for whatever he can get, no matter how they look at him, huh?]

[morethan084]

[His words are like a slap in the face, and something she knows to be true about herself. The guilt she lives with every day being realized by someone else. And she lets him lash out with uttering a word, knowing she deserves it. Even as tears prick her eyes, she doesn't try to defend herself.

It's not until he leaves that she gets up from her seat, quick to wipe the tears rolling down her cheeks before she leaves. Daisy doesn't try to go after him, because there's nothing she could say.]