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...Another Adam. And all about this heroes and villains again. Let me guess - you're the villain of the piece?

Heroes. Villains. They're meaningless titles.

Exactly. Not everything is black and white. But if they're meaningless titles like you say then why are you calling a select group of 'heroes' out on the damage they do?

Good thing I ain't one of those types then.

Apparently I'll be drinking early today.

Maybe we do, and thanks for the reminder, but that doesn't make mass murder acceptable, or reasonable.

Do we really?

How so?

Don't. They. Just.

This is interesting.

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Nice to see you agree. If by the value of nice means drinking my lunch isn't going to be enough.

I wasn't referring to you. Have I ever told you a little story about Japan? Ever actually tell you how all this started?

I think I'll definitely be drinking mine. There is another me.

The sarcasm isn't appreciated. Yes, I know some of the details but I am the hero currently in your life and last I knew we were having a minor issue with the definitions of ending things and torture.

Sorry.

Our issues are not something I would refer to as "doing damage", Peter. But a lot of what you see as...damaged in me? The things, perhaps, that even lie at the root of most of the things that come between us and become issues? Came from things other "heroes" did.

We're all damaged Adam. Look around you at the people you are about. Not one of us can say we're not. But, in the end, would you rather end up her, or like the others you care about?

It was four hundred years ago... and you have me. You have Nathan. You even have Angela. It's past, Adam. We're now, we're the future.

I realize that. I've never claimed to be the only damaged one. And...I don't know if I can be what the rest of you are.

...And thirty years, Peter. Kaito was playing hero, doing the "right" thing. They even justified everything they did to me all those years as a way to "save" the world--if they could just harvest enough from me. And then? It was three months ago when Hiro...Three months since a "hero" did what he did.

It's past, but not 400 years past. And as much as you are still...dealing with things, so am I.

You didn't answer my question.

I thought I did. There was a time when I wanted to be like you. Now, my own knowledge of what I am, what I've become, makes that seem highly unlikely, no matter what I might wish. So, I don't know. Perhaps it's useless to fight nature. I'm trying to mitigate it, but that may be the best I can do.

So to play by my rules means you may not be happy. Understood. And, uhmm, we maybe shouldn't have this talk here.

Likely not.