He stared at her for a moment, wanting to accept the apology, to take her into his arms and say he forgives her and all’s forgotten but would that stop it from happening again? She went out so much, working hard, but also to meet up with these supers and villains. He’s not interesting to her, is he? He may be her fiance, her future husband, but he wasn’t a hero… he wasn’t..
“This… this not being able to t-tell me… is this, is it g-going to be a recurring thing…?” he asks quietly, bringing his hands up to pick at his nails while resting his hands against his chest. “It j-just. I know you w-want to help everyone b-but some things.. sometimes y-you just have to le-leave them to work things out f-for themselves. I’m not s-saying to be m-mean because it’s not be-being mean it’s just l… letting people work th-things out alone…”
“I hate being useless is all,” she whispered, tugging on some of her hair. “To see everyone fighting and standing back and just watching? What if they get hurt..? What if I could have done something to stop it from happening?”
To imagine her friends, one of them dead, she didn’t want to. It hurt her heart too much to think about.
“But after this experience..I know I can’t do it all..I just make it worse otherwise. I hurt my friend and now I don’t know how to fix it.. What can I do to apologize to him?”
“W-what can you–what can you do to apologize to me!” Jack said, quickly. “D-do you have any idea ho-how scared I’ve been? How worried? I was, I was about to call the police about you an-and being kept out of the loop of everything y-you do! How d-do you think that feels? T-to come home and not find you here, to s-see you go out and pro-promise me to be back and you don’t?”
He gestures to a window. “A-and these streets aren’t safe a-any more yet you c-continue to go out there on th-these missions or-or whatever it is you cal-call them and I j-just sit there. Waiting. Worrying.” Jack puts his hands to his chest.
“I’m y-your friend, aren’t I? I’m your b-boyfriend, I’m your fiance. D-don’t I matter?”
Jack Maple 