[ The thing with Darwin is: Alex' power can't hurt him. He'll adapt to survive. So there's no need for the distance, for the tension that he always carries with him around other people, that has become second nature to him to such an extent that he hardly even notices anymore how much he avoids others.
Except — except Darwin died and it was Alex' fault, in a way. Shaw did it, sure, but if not for Alex' energy it wouldn't have happened. He still can't believe that Darwin's gone, that he's not coming back. (That he lost the one person he thought he couldn't hurt.)
So Alex relaxes at first, almost instinctively, then tenses up again almost immediately. ]
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Except — except Darwin died and it was Alex' fault, in a way. Shaw did it, sure, but if not for Alex' energy it wouldn't have happened. He still can't believe that Darwin's gone, that he's not coming back. (That he lost the one person he thought he couldn't hurt.)
So Alex relaxes at first, almost instinctively, then tenses up again almost immediately. ]
Darwin. [ Fuck. You died. ]