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[julienned]

 [this is for all of your "yelling at Julian Keller for getting stabbed with a machete by a twelve year old girl" threads]

[aka he is in Bruce's hobo shack with like medical equipment and stuff hanging off him and really wants to be elsewhere. And that's before anyone else comes and yells at him!]

Comments

[noteworthy]

I...

[shoves the card at him]

To give you this. And, um, apologize for not being able to help. You were right. I don't know what to do if someone's hurting someone else.

[julienned]

How many people have you told?

[noteworthy]

No one. I didn't know if you wanted me to tell people. Do you?

[julienned]

It's not like it matters. Not like we have to worry about a lynch mob.

[noteworthy]

Do you want me to tell people? I want to do the right thing.

[julienned]

Make up your own mind what the right thing is for once in your life.

[noteworthy]

[but that is the most impossible thing]

... I'll let you and Brianna tell people. I was going to tell a doctor right away, but, um, one found you.

[julienned]

You know that if anyone talks about it --

[he pauses to take a breath.]

-- I'll know it was you.

[noteworthy]

B-but I'm not going to talk about it...

[julienned]

I don't trust you.

[noteworthy]

Then, um, I'll prove that you can. I won't tell anyone, no matter what.

[julienned]

I'll believe that when I see it.

[noteworthy]

You'll see.

... And, um, I don't want to keep bothering you, if you're still not feeling well.

[julienned]

I'm not sick. I got stabbed.

[noteworthy]

[winces]

I-if you're still recovering...

[julienned]

Sorry to break it to you, sweetheart but ... No one's going to volunteer to heal me up.

[noteworthy]

... I would if I knew how.

[julienned]

You wouldn't.

[noteworthy]

Y-yes, I would! I don't hate you.

[julienned]

There's nothing in it for you. You wouldn't.

[noteworthy]

... when I trained with Magneto, you helped me. Of course, I'd help you. And I'm trying to be a good person. Good people help other people, even people they aren't friends with.

[julienned]

I didn't help you for you. Don't get the wrong idea.

[noteworthy]

You did it because you're a good person too... right?

[julienned]

Why don't you ask your good friend Magneto if I am.

[noteworthy]

Why would I ask him?