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[benumbing]

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[benumbing]

You better not have already started. Where are you?

[fulminants]

not gonna.

out.

[benumbing]

Don't make me ask again, where the fuck are you?

[fulminants]

i can't do it anymore. no more fire.

[benumbing]

What're you talking about? What happened?

[fulminants]

i don't know. it just doesn't work anymore.

if you're gonna see someone new and better for you, don't tell me

[benumbing]

Have you turned into the court jester? Is this meant to be funny?

[fulminants]

no, it's not. it's the unfunniest thing.

something is wrong with me.

[benumbing]

Johnny, come back here so we can figure this out.

That's not a request. It's not a suggestion. If I have to hunt you down, I will.

[fulminants]

what if I never get it back, jack?

I've been trying for a day now

nothing

a fat fucking lot of nothing

[benumbing]

You'll get it back. We'll find whatever imp or fairy or prancing unicorn that stole it and carve it out of its flesh, and take an extra pound for our trouble. But now isn't the time to do something stupid, so I'll say it again. Come back to me.

[fulminants]

we?

[benumbing]

Do you honestly think I only care for your power?

[fulminants]

ok it sucks when you put it that way

but don't you? i mean it's not something anyone else has in that way and a lot of chicks dig that

[benumbing]

Women like princes as well, but what does that have to do with us?

I care that you've lost what's rightfully yours, but it's not the reason I'm with you.

[fulminants]

[ Jack has a point there. In fact, he has plenty of points there. Johnny thinks about it for a few minutes. ]

nothing. i don't care that you're a prince

well except for the royal scepter jokes but otherwise

i can't protect you the way i want to right now

are you ok with that? im not

if they get you because im not good enough to stop them

[benumbing]

This world has enough knights in shining armor as it is, and most of them not nearly as noble as fairy tales would have us believe.

I don't need you to protect me. I need you to stay with me.

[fulminants]

that's because they haven't written about me yet.

[ The fireball is still a little peacock even if his plumage has been plucked. He just can't resist these things. ]

im coming home now.

[benumbing]

Good. Because I want to lecture you in private about how you're never to do that again.

[fulminants]

do what?

im pretty sure not being able to flame on is my first time.

[benumbing]

Not that. Running away from me.

[fulminants]

im giving you a way out, babe.

[benumbing]

I don't want a way out.

[fulminants]

[ what if it's permanent? what if he's going to stay like this forever, just some guy who's... well, some guy.

he's on his way back, rex bounding home and in other days johnny would have raced her. he would have flown. ]

you want to be stuck with me?

[benumbing]

Is that so hard for you to believe?

[And he thought he was the unlovable one.]