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CW: mention of domestic violence

Date: 2025-07-03 04:31 am (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (We saw her wavering)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[Kirk quotes Will in a monotone that suggests an attempt at keeping emotional distance]

"I always knew that she loved you. Even back in college, she was only ever really happy when the three of us were together. Even after I turned you into a monster. Even after that, she still wanted you."

[How well Kirk remembers Will's confession hints at how traumatic it's been]

Those are some of the things he told me years later after he revealed his true colors. By then, he had secretly murdered some of the world's top scientists and then tried to frame the Justice League. The military was right at our doorstep and ready to execute us.

Hernan and Bekka were trying to keep the military at bay while I was in the tower, monitoring. Will then ambushed me. Earlier, someone had tried to kill him and we took him to the tower for medical treatment. That turned out to be a ruse. He needed to get into the tower to use the power core.

[Kirk forces himself to keep going despite how tense his body now was. Vander was going to ask more questions anyway]

That moment when he restrained me was also when Will confessed that he killed Tina years ago. He claimed it was an accident when she kept talking to him about how he needed to keep helping me find a vampirism cure. According to him, her death made him realize that free agency is the root of evil and that it should be eliminated. If even a brilliant scientist like him is capable of killing, then what chance does humanity have?

[Even recollecting it now, Will's madness still feels monstrous]

For several years after Tina's death, he secretly prepared a bomb that could unleash billions of nanites to take over every human mind on Earth. Take down the Justice League and no one could stop him. We also had the right power core to support his bomb.

[Kirk looks away. Bitterness and self-loathing rising to his throat]

While Will plotted all of that, I never put all the pieces together. The Tina I had been talking to for the last several years was one of Will's machines and meant to fool me. Will kept on a mask that I never knew was even there.

Date: 2025-07-03 10:32 am (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (Stilled our play)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[Kirk has a hard time believing it wasn’t his fault. He was supposed to be a detective and he had considered Will and Tina his closest friends. But Will turned out to be his blind spot the whole time]

An outside source managed to dissuade the military and told them and Hernan and Bekka what was really happening. He was the last scientist Will tried to kill but it turned out he had escaped just before the explosion.

[Who knew it would be Lex Luthor who would save the Justice League?]

Will’s ruse also meant he got to benefit from the tower’s impenetrable shield. While everyone outside tried to storm in, I tried to break free from the Metal Man who was restraining me. Hernan’s punching was powerful enough to shake the building and gave me enough momentum to smash my capturer. After that, I deactivate the tower’s shield. Even then, Hernan and Bekka just barely got to me in time. Another one of Will’s Metal Men pinned me down again and was ready to rip my throat out until Hernan punched it in the face.

[Kirk really did owe Hernan his life many times over]

Hernan fought most of the Metal Men and took his fight outside. Bekka fought the machine that mimicked Tina. I had Will, right in the power core room. Will had enhanced himself with more nanites just in case. His strength, durability, and stamina were almost as good as mine and he could quickly heal.

[Kirk goes quiet, still not looking at Vander in the eye]

Will accused me of “loving only my bats and test tubes. If only she hadn’t wanted you.” They were the two people in my life that I loved.
Edited Date: 2025-07-03 11:11 am (UTC)

CW: Mention of suicide

Date: 2025-07-05 05:35 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (So poisonous)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[Kirk’s grief has been quiet but always present since the battle at the tower. Most of the time, he tries to bury it and act like it’s not there. Recollecting it like this is making that grief so much more real. Kirk isn’t sure he likes it]

So do I. He left behind a lot of unanswered questions.

[Kirk’s body is tense as his last memories of Will run through his mind]

Taunted me one last time but I chose not to bite him. Will’s machines were destroyed and we had him cornered.

[Kirk blinks, thinking back again on Will’s last words. He finishes his story with a quiet and sad tone]

Maybe… Maybe Will understood that poison in the end. “It’s funny how things can change so quickly. After a while, you don’t even recognize yourself anymore.” Then he told me to forgive him. He killed himself after that.
Edited Date: 2025-07-05 05:38 pm (UTC)

Date: 2025-07-05 05:54 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by <user name=pyrophoric> (pic#17663298)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[An uncomfortable silence hangs in the air as Kirk thinks]

… I still don’t know.

[Kirk knows it’s a meek answer. His ways of coping so far haven’t involved emotionally unpacking everything nor left room to think about forgiveness]

Date: 2025-07-05 06:01 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by <user name=pyrophoric> (Spread a silence there)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[Meanwhile, Kirk is still not comfortable to look back at Vander]

I suppose so. It seems I don’t have much luck with humans, even when I was one.

Date: 2025-07-05 06:06 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (Chilled our laughter)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[A soft huff]

Right. It’s part of why I keep saying you spoil me.

Date: 2025-07-05 06:15 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (We saw her wavering)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[A corner of Kirk’s lip twitches]

That as well. You’re a strange human to be friends with, Vander.

[Though he’s certainly not complaining]

Date: 2025-07-05 06:30 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (So poisonous)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
That probably says something about you.

[All said in monotone but maybe it’s a slight tease too]

Date: 2025-07-05 06:37 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by <user name=pyrophoric> (pic#17663297)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
“Aggressively friendly” would explain a lot about us.

[And Kirk doesn’t regret letting himself open up to Vander so far]

Date: 2025-07-05 06:41 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (So poisonous)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[That almost gets a smile out of Kirk]

You wore me down with your extroverted personality.

Date: 2025-07-05 06:48 pm (UTC)
godsandbats: Icon made by me (Chilled our laughter)
From: [personal profile] godsandbats
[Kirk huffs a short laugh. He’s heard that kind of talk before. It seems he has a type when it comes to close friends]

Clearly. Taking a little bit of your blood just makes us even.

Date: 2025-07-05 06:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] godsandbats
I suppose that’s one way of looking at it.

[Kirk finally look back at Vander, feeling a lot less tense now]

You volunteered after all.

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