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the dreaM

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A few months ago

"Okay be honest, if we were to fight one-on-one, who would win?"

I laugh at his odd question, "I would win, probably."

"What? You have no faith in me?"

"You can only crush things and move stuff away. I can do a lot with ice. I can freeze you, blizzard you to death. I got options."

As he chuckled, his eyes soften when looking at me. The Strucker puts one of my stranded hair away from my face. I knew his mind was wandering, thinking of thoughts that made his face hollow in worry.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I'm just thinking... about when those people took you. You know, the ones that put you in that coma."

"Them? Th-They're gone, I mean. You saw what I did to them."

I still do regret what I did to them. I knew it was an accident, I didn't know how my powers grew, but I still had guilt in me.
A lot of it.

"But what happens if someone hurts you," Andy says, "like the man at Trask Industries. He tortured you, he hurt you in the most awful of ways."

"But I'm still here, aren't I? I'm with you, here."

"Okay, but... I still worry that——"

I put my hands on his chest. "I am with you, on every mission. I'm not leaving your side. You won't lose me, not ever."

"But... what if I'm the reason you're hurt? What if I lose control and I hurt you?"

"Andy, Andy. My darling, my love, I don't even believe you can do that. I know you wouldn't. Never intentionally, never on purpose."

He sighs, turning his head up to avoid the water that seemed to be in his eyes, "It's hard to think like that when you have powers that can literally destroy anything."

I pull his face to look at me. I kissed him, long and calm. I could feel the salty water next to my cheek.

I didn't know Andy felt this way, about these powers. I always thought his powers were good, useless, in a way chaotically beautiful.