💭: Well... So would I guess. We are literally that experiment about children raissd wothout human interaction. FUCK no wonder THAT is unethical.

[Now he is laughing his ass off]

being his friend, but... If he wants help, if there is a chance he ACTUALLY wants help... Shouldn't I try? Obviously, I'll keep my guard up around him, but... Shouldn't I try? Even if only so I don’t have to live my entire life constantly afraid?

🎙💬: I didn't say I trust him. I know he is terrible, Wally. I am just... I don’t know, I... I... Look, I know he is insane, ok? I KNOW. I'm not saying he is nice. He isn’t nice. I am saying he is trying to... Find some semblance of meaning to his life aside from wrecking mine? I am not planning on +

to take into account what Thad had told him about his metabolism. ]

going around together or something. I am not kidnapped or mind controled or anything like that. Love you both. Bye.

question to ask in that sombre, sombre tone. As if it was of vital importance.

After that conversation, he needed some whimsy, some silliness. A laugh. Probably, both of them did. ]

truly, fully, yours. We have our whole lives for it.

in the cards, well, they could always do something together. ]

It's not like I'm a stranger to weird, complicated family stuff... We are the same stock!

[ "Caught in the crossfire." He had been born in the crossfire. ]

Give me a chance, ok? Let's try and get you a new meaning, one that is +

[ Slowly but surely, Bart reached his hand across the table, offering it.

Peace. ]

New life, clean slate?

Take a place in my life, brother. Your place... With me. With each other. 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.

Let me learn to love you.

Vindictive. Is that the word?

You can’t take back what you did to me, the same way I can’t take back how I treated our cousin when I got here. But we can always choose to change course. To start doing things differeng...

Even though we can't take anything back, what do you say, Thad?

+

𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙩 has ever been easy.

can try. I WANT to try... To be your brother. To actually be your brother...

Maybe... I just think life would be more fun if racing you ends like this instead of with one of us in sick bay.

And I know this isn't easy, do you think it is easy for me? Thad, I remember 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜. But nothing +

ice cream. One Thaddeus had already tasted and set aside for long enough that he understood Thad didn't like it. ]

And maybe... I don’t know. It's not like I can promise that one day I will stop wanting to punch you for what you did to me. I can’t promise I will learn to like you, Thad... But I +

rehearsing the same Cain and Abel play? I guess I've decided that both of us have suffered enough... That, if I can avoid it, I don’t want us to be in pain anymore...

That we have both died and come back, and maybe I don’t want these lives stuck in the same loop as the others...

[ He took another+