SPOILERS for Children's Crusade #9

[assguardian]

What's gonna happen now?

Cassie, Jonas, Nate, and even Eli — now what?

I can't do this.

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YES. COME TO MY ARMS.

[stature]

No, it shouldn't have.

But we did so much and we worked so hard to be Young Avengers. Everyone just leaving it like that...

Two issues in a row I'm crying over comics. HEINBERG.

[assguardian]

But you're gone. This isn't like when someone like Thor dies where you know he's coming back, because that's what they do, this is not—

[Saying it isn't fair makes him a hypocrite, and he knows that, but that's how it feels.]

sobsobsob

[stature]

They don't always come back. At least, not how we want them to.

[ is she bitter that she got her dad back for like only five minutes before she died? maybe a little. ]

they all better come back. everyone else comes back, gd.

[assguardian]

[It's just cruel.]

I wish you'd come back. What does that make me?

[Telling Nate he can't do one thing but wanting the same thing as he does - none of them were ready to be heroes. He gets it now.]

[stature]

Human. Or, well... mutant, I guess.

You know what I mean.

[assguardian]

I do. Yeah, I think I do.

But I'm gonna miss you.

[stature]

I know.

[ she can't exactly say she'll miss him too since she's dead, but. ]

You'll take care of everyone for me, right?

[assguardian]

I'll do my best, but... Man, Kate.

You two are the closest out of all of us.