Tina thought about Cassidy's question for a moment and as she did a silence filled the air. It was a fair question, but it was a difficult one for her. She'd kept her secrets pushed to the back of the mental closet for years and in the last week they'd come to the surface in the form of Namor showing up on her doorstep with explanations and fatherly love--as much as the xenophobic Atlantean could muster considering his noted crankiness (she secretly adored that about home.) Now here was Cassidy, asking for whys when the only why was to open up her secret again.
She took a deep breath.
"When I was a kid, my step-father routinely hurt me and then passed me out to his friends for them to hurt me, too. I know what it's like to be constantly hurt and tortured and wonder why no one cares about me and what I'd done to deserve the pain. I would have given anything for one person to care and to stop my suffering then. I would have given anything for a friend.
"You remind me of me. And I'm in a position to be the person I always wished would come save me for you. I'd adopt you if I could get away with it, Cassidy. I'm serious."
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