Twisted (TMNT 2012 drabble)

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"Monster" and "freak" aren't anything new. Far from it.

He tells himself, promises in the dead of night to the sharp light of stars that he will never live up to the words thrown at him.

His chest burns and he exhales, smothers the searing hatred.

But now there's a monster he can't wish or will away. Blood, dripping across steel and flesh and some conglomerate of both that rises from the shadows. Smoke, hazy but echoing the flames dashing along buildings.

And worst: the cutting words that whisper how the two of them are not so different after all.

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