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    Johnny brooded. He lashed out. He lit up the night sky with his flame while Sue and Reed discussed him in their marital bed like he were a child and they were his parents.

    Johnny hated feeling this way. Pent-up anger with nowhere to put it, pent-up guilt with no absolution. Grief.

    He knew he shouldn’t do it; it was late, and Johnny was emotional and vulnerable. If there was one person who could make him even more so, it was Pete — but what was it that Sue had said? That Johnny didn’t have many friends?

    He had Peter, though. And worse, he kind of needed him.

    Peter showed up an hour later.

    “You know, flame brain, at 2 a.m. you could suggest an easier meeting spot. I hear the Empire State Building is lovely this time of year.”

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