[Closed] We define ourselves by the actions we do today, not tomorrow.

[kungfublackfrog]

Who: Adam and Danny

Where: Dissimulo Observatory

When: Today

Rating: PG-PG13 maybe? Let's see how it goes

Summary: Finding an angst-ridden kid. Five bucks says Adam punches him.

The Log:

It was unusual to have anyone up at the observatory, let alone someone during the daytime. It was so quiet that some thought of it as a good place to collect their thoughts. Adam knew that well enough, having used the place a couple of times when someone has left Fortuna or just too much crap was going on.

The building greeted him in silence, unaware that someone else was in there with him.

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[kungfublackfrog]

"Then what was that you just did?"

And he's not referring to your sudden disappearing act, Danny. Powers don't startle him so easily.

[schrodingersghost]

"Maybe I just don't want to talk to people right now."

[kungfublackfrog]

"You'd be surprised on how much it can help. Either way, I'm not moving."

Start spilling kid.

[schrodingersghost]

"That sounds like something my sister would say." A beat. "I never listened to her either."

[kungfublackfrog]

"She sounds smart."

He gives the boy a small smile-smirk.

"I wonder how long it'll be."

Patience of a saint sometimes.

[schrodingersghost]

"How long what will be?" Danny gives him a suspicious look.

[kungfublackfrog]

"What do you think? I know something is wrong: it's etched all over your face."

The ranger sighed and leaned against the wall.

"You'd be surprised how much it'll help."

[schrodingersghost]

He avoids Adam's eyes as he pulls his legs up and loosely wraps his arms around them. "Maybe I don't want to be helped."

[kungfublackfrog]

"That's bullshit and you know it."

[schrodingersghost]

"Leave me alone. I don't know you and you don't know me. Why should you care?"

[kungfublackfrog]

"Sorry, can't do that."

The ranger ends up sitting on the floor, setting his sword.

"There's not many of us here and holding it in won't help you."

[schrodingersghost]

"This is my burden to deal with. No offense, but talking it out won't do anything."

[kungfublackfrog]

"Do you know how many times I heard that line? Can tell you how many times it fails."

He's really pushing it. If Danny keeps this up, Adam will drop kick him.

[schrodingersghost]

"Just drop it, okay? I don't want to talk about it."

[kungfublackfrog]

Talking won't work then? He didn't want it to come to this but it seemed like there was no other choice.

"Sorry, but I don't do this normally."

And Danny would find Adam's fist in his face. Yep, he punched him.

[schrodingersghost]

[And since Danny wasn't expecting a human to suddenly punch him, he doesn't dodge.]

[kungfublackfrog]

For someone with amazing powers, his reflexes kinda suck. But Adam doesn't regret it and starts to speak.

"Do you expect to wallow in self pity all this time?! No one will want to be around you if you keep it up! And don't give me that crap about being better off alone because that's a lie!"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny struggles back to his feet and glares at him. "This is not self-pity! People are hurt because of me! People could have died! Will die, if this happens again! All because I couldn't keep one promise!"

[kungfublackfrog]

"Then tell me why no one told you of the risks of when you got your chip out?"

He's not backing down one damn bit.

"I know you don't have it anymore because of that little vanishing trick earlier."

[schrodingersghost]

"They told me that my powers would go out of control. Not that I would turn into my evil future jerky self from an alternate timeline that doesn't exist any more! I know it doesn't exist, because I destroyed any chance of that future existing myself!"

He looks away, still rubbing at his injury.

"And... I never asked to have it removed."

[kungfublackfrog]

"...what? Someone forced it out of you?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Last thing I remember was a weird message on my communicator. Then I was waking up in the rubble with three days of memories of being him.

[kungfublackfrog]

"Weird message?"

The ranger pinches the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"So they decide to screw up powers too?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Something about an anarchist."

[kungfublackfrog]

"...sounds like their sense of humor."

He stops again before sitting again, expression remaining neutral but his eyes told a different story.

"It's something you can't beat yourself up on. Sometimes powers can go out of control here, it's not your fault that you changed into something like that. You said that the timeline he's from has been destroyed, right? Time works differently here and I bet it hasn't changed in your world."

Adam had a question after remembering the part where Danny said he had attacked people; Marco had told him earlier that Owen's assistant got hurt around the same time this occured, right? So was Danny the one who did it?

It was tempting to ask but the man held his tongue.