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Falling (in love)

This wasn’t he first time my powers had given out. I’d faced the usual—reality warps, psychic blocks, that sort of thing. But this time was different. This time it was my own fault, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I hadn’t meant for this to happen. I hadn’t realized I’d fallen in love with Lisa and broken my Oath until it was too late. How could I just turn that off? But if I didn’t, Lisa would die. I had to stop loving her, because I loved her.

I closed my eyes and tried to think of her as just another victim I was saving. Right now Lisa was screaming and smelled of sweat, but I could still smell that perfume she was wearing at dinner. I tried to ignore it. I tried to forget her cute laugh, her warm smile, how great it was to actually get intelligent questions for a change…

And I stopped falling. I flew back up to the building and put her down. I knew that if Iooked back and saw her again, I would fall and die. At that moment I wanted to die. But I would have a few words with them first.

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