I did. Listen, you're gonna panic when I tell you this. I know, cause I can feel it, so just--I don't know. Take a breath, or something. You done that?
I know about you and your magic finger. And since you've been in my head too, I'm guessing you know you're not alone in the magical abilities that ruin your whole life department.
[ ned opened his mouth to tell nathan that he didn't know; ask him how could he know, when he realized with no small degree of panic that he did. he knew viscerally, in a place that didn't even have a name. ]
Mine doesn't ruin my life, it enhances it. [ despite his best efforts, his voice is clipped; not quite defensive, but abrupt and unyielding all the same. ]
Sure it does. And if the power didn't, she does. Cute story, by the way. Real heartbreaking.
[ Nathan says it quite brusquely, but inside he's aware of how hard it is, how heartbreaking, how rewarding. But he's conflicted about abilities himself, and experiencing other people's from a personal standpoint has given him a lot of reference; not just Ned but Jaye, Tyke--tragic lives with only one thing in common. ]
There's more give and take in your ability than any other I've seen. A real Catch 22.
Sure, a comfort. Sixty seconds to decide whether or not someone gets to live or die. Two someones. Aren't many people could get along with being on the end of making that decision.
What makes her the exception? Cause you love her? Why wasn't it her time?
[ Nathan knows, and honestly he'd have done the same thing. But he's going to give Ned a hard time because this is a big deal. He might not see it that way, but it's as simple as choice, and every action changes the future. Some people should be dead. If you can go back and change it? Well--that's not the way the world works.
Or it shouldn't be. And then powers come in and fuck up the order of the universe. ]
[ It's heavyhearted. Nathan is conflicted. On one side he wants to berate him, because this - exactly this - is why people with powers need to be better policed in his world--
--and in another, he experienced Ned's point of view, his long lost love, his heartache. And he knows that if he'd felt the way Ned did - if he even could any more - felt that overwhelming intolerable need to not let go of a dream, then he'd probably do the same thing.
It was fortunate that he'd never felt like that, and probably never would. ]
I'm afraid so. But I'm not sorry that Chuck got to live while Mr. Schatz had to... die. He wasn't a very good man, and he stole things from dead people!
[ ned is very good at justifying his actions. clearly. ]
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Mine doesn't ruin my life, it enhances it. [ despite his best efforts, his voice is clipped; not quite defensive, but abrupt and unyielding all the same. ]
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[ Nathan says it quite brusquely, but inside he's aware of how hard it is, how heartbreaking, how rewarding. But he's conflicted about abilities himself, and experiencing other people's from a personal standpoint has given him a lot of reference; not just Ned but Jaye, Tyke--tragic lives with only one thing in common. ]
There's more give and take in your ability than any other I've seen. A real Catch 22.
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One simple caveat: 60 seconds. It's a comfort more than a limitation, I assure you.
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First touch life, second touch dead again -- forever.
But you already know about Chuck. Still, she was... and is, an exception.
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[ Nathan knows, and honestly he'd have done the same thing. But he's going to give Ned a hard time because this is a big deal. He might not see it that way, but it's as simple as choice, and every action changes the future. Some people should be dead. If you can go back and change it? Well--that's not the way the world works.
Or it shouldn't be. And then powers come in and fuck up the order of the universe. ]
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[ It's heavyhearted. Nathan is conflicted. On one side he wants to berate him, because this - exactly this - is why people with powers need to be better policed in his world--
--and in another, he experienced Ned's point of view, his long lost love, his heartache. And he knows that if he'd felt the way Ned did - if he even could any more - felt that overwhelming intolerable need to not let go of a dream, then he'd probably do the same thing.
It was fortunate that he'd never felt like that, and probably never would. ]
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[ ned is very good at justifying his actions. clearly. ]
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You know there are other people here, right? People with powers like yours?
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[ See he's getting to a point. ]
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A hospice nurse.
So yeah, actually, that's sorta his whole thing.
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[ begrudgingly: ] Thank you.
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