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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 1:51:41 GMT -5
Megan only lifted a skeptical eyebrow.
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 2:10:28 GMT -5
"If you don't believe me, that's fine, you're only one person" he smiled "I'm out to prove it to the world."
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 2:23:31 GMT -5
This was the first time since Megan had acquired her abilities that she'd ever thought about killing somebody on purpose.
It'd be easy. If she just pictured his heart, and pictured a small flame igniting in its very center, superhot and spreading through the whole organ, burning it from the inside out and spreading through his whole body, maybe slowly enough to hurt but not really killing him until after she was gone-
No. No, no, that would just justify his opinion of people like- like her. It'd be...
Dan had told her about Rorschach. Sure, Dan had also said that it was hard to avoid killing people in this line of work, but she didn't want to get accustomed.
She fought to keep her face perfectly placid, straightened up in her chair, and lifted the veil back from her face to show she meant business.
(Also, that she'd done a reasonably good job on her eye makeup and was feeling a lot more grown-up and confident because of it.)
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 2:31:34 GMT -5
He sighed "Tell me, Miss Elness, do you not believe that people can change?"
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 2:34:03 GMT -5
"I believe that some people can change, and some people blame everything on clones."
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 4:01:14 GMT -5
He raised his eyebrow and grew quite serious "If you're saying that my kidnapping and torture by the hands of those scientists was an act Miss, than I ask that you leave my premises immediately. I don't appreciate being patronized about something that has affected my life in such ways that very few people can understand. Those men, put my life and my professional life and danger, staining my reputation for the rest of my life."
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 4:06:05 GMT -5
Megan stopped the tape recorder and looked at him calmly.
"There. You're off the record. Now you can tell me the truth."
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 4:07:40 GMT -5
He sat forward in his chair and replied in the most serious way that he possibly could "That is the truth, the whole truth, so help me, god."
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 4:20:40 GMT -5
It was Megan's turn now to laugh a bit scathingly and incredulously, covering her somewhat uneven teeth with her hand.
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 4:30:45 GMT -5
He didn't change his tone, as he began to speak again "Those men attempted to use me in order to destroy the world and ended up destroying the one place in the world that I hold closer to my heart than anywhere else. I still have nightmares of where they kept me, then nightmares of prison afterward, yet you sit there LAUGHING."
Lex slowly began to rise "I have humored you long enough Miss Elness, I have given you everything you wanted from me today. I have told you nothing but the truth, yet you laugh at the single most traumatic part of my life. You have no right to sit there, because you weren't THERE."
He never yelled during this, there was change in tone yes, but he had to make it convincing. He had to make her stop laughing. Stop laughing or he'd kill his trump card.
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 4:36:07 GMT -5
"I'm sorry," said Megan, and while she still had a bit of a laugh in her voice it had become rather frightened. "I'm sorry. It's just... I react badly to stress, and I'm very stressed, and it's almost like, if I don't laugh I'll, you know. Freak out."
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 4:38:51 GMT -5
He inhaled "I apologize" and sat down "I didn't mean to scare you, I- you have to understand that my experiences there has left me a bit on edge. I'm always afraid someones out to get me, to clone me and use me, again I apologize."
No, he didn't mean it.
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 4:46:16 GMT -5
Megan widened her eyes and looked down.
"Look, if it'll loosen things up, I think I'd like that drink now... but only if I get to pour it."
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Post by Lex Luthor on Apr 6, 2010 4:49:48 GMT -5
He nodded and hit the button on his desk and the bar opened up again.
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Post by Megan on Apr 6, 2010 4:55:52 GMT -5
"Anything?" she offered.
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