He barely resisted the urge to lean back into Mohinder's fingers. "I will."
He hesitated, and then, against his better judgment, he added, "We might have to go through this, more than once. I don't know how hard it will be to keep my brain from trying to correct itself." If he could do it at all. If he could do it without hurting himself. If ...
What if, in stripping himself of his aptitudes, he lost that power forever? His original gift, his ability to see how things worked, to fix himself and others, gone forever, because he couldn't turn it back on, if and when he turned it off. He felt slightly nauseated by the thought, and as such, took a slow, deep breath, in an attempt to calm the fluttering of his heart and stomach.
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:11 am (UTC)He hesitated, and then, against his better judgment, he added, "We might have to go through this, more than once. I don't know how hard it will be to keep my brain from trying to correct itself." If he could do it at all. If he could do it without hurting himself. If ...
What if, in stripping himself of his aptitudes, he lost that power forever? His original gift, his ability to see how things worked, to fix himself and others, gone forever, because he couldn't turn it back on, if and when he turned it off. He felt slightly nauseated by the thought, and as such, took a slow, deep breath, in an attempt to calm the fluttering of his heart and stomach.