"I don't need anyone." said the young man as he left his home in ashes and set off to find his own way.
"I don't need anyone." repeated the villain as he put on his suit for the first time.
"I don't need you." he spat at the hero who claimed they could help him.
"I don't need your help." he insisted when his now nemesis cleaned his wounds.
"Don't go." he mumbled into the hero's shirt that night they comforted him from another nightmare.
"I love you." both whispered to each other under the starry sky.
And now, as he wept holding onto the other's tattered cape, the three words he dreaded most escaped his lips.
"I need you."










