“I fucked up,” he says. “No,” I tell him, as sternly as I can. “You didn’t.” “You don’t know what I did.” “It doesn’t matter.” I wish I could hug him. Why do we have to be so far apart? And then he says with a broken voice, “I’m never going to defeat this.” “Lo,” I breathe, licking my dry lips. “You’re forgetting something.” He exhales deeply. “What’s that?” “We’re in Earth-616. This isn’t an alternate universe.” I clutch the phone tighter, tears falling. “We’re going to have our happy ending. It’s just going to take us a little while to get there.” He told me that once. When I hit a low. Now
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