voice test; reserved at exsilium

[mgann]

Look, I... I know I'm not the same as I was when we were last partnered up, but that doesn't mean I'm a completely new person. I'm still me, just older and more experienced.

You're cautious, and that's natural. If things don't work out, then we can deal with it. Things don't always work out, no matter how much you want them to. We both know that. Let's just try and see what happens, okay?

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[genomorph]

Sometimes there is no easy way out.

[ Then he adds: ] It would have blown over - [ Their argument. ] - if you had just let things run their own course.

[mgann]

Am I honestly supposed to believe that, Conner? You wouldn't have just let it go. You still won't.

[genomorph]

I should have been enough, M'gann! [ Conner bursts out. GOD WHY ARE THEY HAVING THIS ARGUMENT AGAIN WHY WON'T IT EVER STOP ] But you showed us both that I was no different from the rest. My head, my mind was just another for you to use.

[mgann]

[M'gann physically recoils a bit at the outburst, obviously taken aback, before she retaliates herself. Why did it have to come to this?]

You were-- are more than that, but I thought it would solve things!

[genomorph]

I bet you did. And I bet it would have been better for you if I had turned out catatonic in the end, too!

[ He doesn't know whether to punch a wall or grab her and kiss her or AUGH ]

OH YOU DID NOT

[mgann]

[She now looks like she's been slapped. Hard.]

How dare you, Conner. How dare you say that!

YEAH. HE WENT THERE.

[genomorph]

How dare you think I wouldn't know. How dare you treat me like one of them!

BOYYYYYY

[mgann]

There's a difference! You're not like one of them, and that's why I--

[She cuts herself off, letting her shoulders droop.]

Forget it. Yelling isn't going to change anything.

BBBOOOOYYYY IKR

[genomorph]

--and yet that still didn't stop you.

[ the hurt tone returns. It's the same every time they have this conversation. ]

M'gann...

[ he almost doesn't want to look at her. He doesn't know how they're going to make anything work-- it doesn't matter, she's with La'gaan. ]

[deadcat]

[mgann]

[She mumbles something that normal ears wouldn't be able to pick up. Superboy's, however...]

It should have.

Re: [deadcat]

[genomorph]

Then why?

[ his head lifts and he looks across at her, his expression pained. ]

Why, M'gann?

[mgann]

I told you, I wanted to stop the fighting. I thought that was the way to do it, but...

[She still can't let herself meet his eyes. It'd hurt both of them too much.]

[genomorph]

If you had only just stopped after the first time.

[mgann]

[There are no words. :(]

[genomorph]

[ without even realizing it Conner takes a step towards her. Just one step, but why? He watches her and says nothing else.

He should go. He really should go. ]