09-08-2015, 09:50 AM
Ho boy. Healer the padre might be, but he was also skittish. Crap! This was not what he needed. Unless he was willing to look Smiley up and make are nicey-nice with him, this guy was his only real chance.
Ivan sat up, feeling the tug of the tubes and needles. They were irritations, though, now. He reached out his hand though he obviously couldn't reach the man as he backed towards the door. "Please"
The word held it all, the entire weight of everything sat on his shoulder, the responsibility he had. It was who he was. "Look, I know you're scared. I can protect you. But I need to know how to control this...this power."
He let his frustration show, the sense of failure and guilt that he usually kept at bay.
His eyes bored into the man. "People died because of me. Because I couldn't stop him. I reach for the power..."
- he stretched out, seeking it, trying to grasp that light just in the distance and it might as well have been on the moon.-"...and nothing. I don't know what I'm doing. He nearly killed-"
his voice caught at the thought of something happening to Zo, like his brother or mother being killed- "-someone special to me. He did kill someone's son or daughter. So are these other people,"
he said gesturing at the TV.
He was naked and exposed before the man. "Please. Whatever you can do, however you can help me, whatever you can teach me...."
He let the words trail off.
Ivan sat up, feeling the tug of the tubes and needles. They were irritations, though, now. He reached out his hand though he obviously couldn't reach the man as he backed towards the door. "Please"
The word held it all, the entire weight of everything sat on his shoulder, the responsibility he had. It was who he was. "Look, I know you're scared. I can protect you. But I need to know how to control this...this power."
He let his frustration show, the sense of failure and guilt that he usually kept at bay.
His eyes bored into the man. "People died because of me. Because I couldn't stop him. I reach for the power..."
- he stretched out, seeking it, trying to grasp that light just in the distance and it might as well have been on the moon.-"...and nothing. I don't know what I'm doing. He nearly killed-"
his voice caught at the thought of something happening to Zo, like his brother or mother being killed- "-someone special to me. He did kill someone's son or daughter. So are these other people,"
he said gesturing at the TV.
He was naked and exposed before the man. "Please. Whatever you can do, however you can help me, whatever you can teach me...."
He let the words trail off.