It doesn't matter how it was done. It's already dealt with, anyway.
[His words ring just a little bit hollow, echoing in his own ears. There are already so many mistakes that Bruce doesn't forgive himself for - this will be another one to the mix. And here, perhaps, there had been the foolish thought that maybe Stark and the others were onto something. That maybe...
He should have known better.]
Because the alternative was to simply despise and hate him for what he did. [And oh, it would be so easy to hate, to be angry. It would be far too easy. Bruce knows and lives and breathes anger to know how easy it is to give into it, to let it take over. And he knows better than most how terrible the consequences of that would be.]
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[His words ring just a little bit hollow, echoing in his own ears. There are already so many mistakes that Bruce doesn't forgive himself for - this will be another one to the mix. And here, perhaps, there had been the foolish thought that maybe Stark and the others were onto something. That maybe...
He should have known better.]
Because the alternative was to simply despise and hate him for what he did. [And oh, it would be so easy to hate, to be angry. It would be far too easy. Bruce knows and lives and breathes anger to know how easy it is to give into it, to let it take over. And he knows better than most how terrible the consequences of that would be.]