Three Times The Hummel Verse

Heroes

What is a hero? Someone who puts their life on the line or saves someone else's? Is there only one type of hero?

Over the years, Heroes have been portrayed as people of power. Heroes such as a knight in shining armor sent to save a damsel in distress. Said power is what gives the hero the ability to help others.

What about people who don't have powers? Could they potentially count as a hero? What is the line between heroes and villains? At what point is using powers for good considered as using them for bad? Who defined the difference between good and evil?

What about the more subtle, everyday hero? The guy who saves a cat from a tree or gives a homeless man on the street a dollar. Are these men not considered a hero?

'What is a Hero?' is not an accurate question and does not have a specific answer. Instead, 'What is a hero to you?'

Shannon finished typing up her debate paper on her laptop. She stared at the screen, completely lost in her mind. Her thoughts raced a hundred miles a second as she reread again and again what she had wrote. She meant every word of it. She had never understood the concept of a hero. In many of the typical action movies with a hero, the hero killed people to win in the end. How could he possibly be considered a hero when he had killed people. That wasn't heroic in the slightest. If anything, he was as bad as the villain he faced. 

The jingle of keys stole Shane's attention away from the computer. A moment later, Carson entered her dorm. He smiled when he saw her sitting in her bed with her laptop in her lap. "Hey." He said as he walked in and closed the door behind him.

"Hi." She said back with a smile. She looked back down at her computer screen for a moment before she closed the laptop with a huff.

"Finals that bad huh?" Carson said teasingly as he sat himself down on the bed beside his girlfriend. It was finals week and instead of making a test, most of the professors had decided to make the students write debate papers instead. The deadline to turn them in was the next day. Carson had already turned his in earlier that morning. He had done the simple topic of seasonal preference such as winter or summer. He had decided to go to Shannon's dorm room after he turned it in to work with her on finding a house for the both of them to live in some more.

"No, I think I'm just about done. My problem is that I'm not sure it counts as a debate topic. It's more like personal thought." She said as she moved her computer to the side. When she set it down, Carson quickly snatched it up and opened it again. It was silent as Carson quickly read through the words on the screen.

"This is really good. I can guarantee that no one else is going to have this topic and the use of figurative questions is genius! I wish I'd added that to mine." He exclaimed as he turned to look at his girlfriend. His warm smile softened her unease drastically.

"Thank you." She said quietly.

"For what? All I did was tell the truth." He said simply as he leaned closer to the girl beside him.

"For being my hero." She said directly as she stared into his big blue eyes.

Carson smiled again and leaned forward the rest of the way and captured her lips in a gentle kiss. He wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her for what felt like hours. He still didn't release his grip on her when he finally spoke. "You've got it all wrong. You see, I'm the damsel in distress. You saved me by loving me. You are my hero Shane."

Shannon smiled but didn't say anything. She knew there was nothing she could say to really show him how she felt. Instead she just squeezed him harder. At that moment, she knew she would never let him go.

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