[ Even for someone who, outside of his powers, has a freakish tolerance for pain, there's stoicism, and then there's someone stomping your penis.
Gabriel's body folds in half about as far as restraints permit, a compulsive shudder, with a sound like he's been gut punched, air expelled from his lungs, gasped back in. Hysterically, he is hit with the unfairness of the situation, because he didn't play with his food that much. Not like with Sarissa, anyway.
And that was different.
He relaxes his hands when he realises they've made tight fists. Just. ]
Do you remember [ he says, once he thinks his voice will be even, not just for the kick that transpired but for whatever comes next as a result of his speaking, relentlessly ] when I broke into your house? Three laptops every room, cold pizza in the fridge. White and glass, drugs and toys. It was so hollow, so-- unimaginative, for all that power.
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Gabriel's body folds in half about as far as restraints permit, a compulsive shudder, with a sound like he's been gut punched, air expelled from his lungs, gasped back in. Hysterically, he is hit with the unfairness of the situation, because he didn't play with his food that much. Not like with Sarissa, anyway.
And that was different.
He relaxes his hands when he realises they've made tight fists. Just. ]
Do you remember [ he says, once he thinks his voice will be even, not just for the kick that transpired but for whatever comes next as a result of his speaking, relentlessly ] when I broke into your house? Three laptops every room, cold pizza in the fridge. White and glass, drugs and toys. It was so hollow, so-- unimaginative, for all that power.
Even now, you don't know what you're doing.