[i]Too hero?[/i] Connor thought to himself, [i]why do people have this sort of opinion about me?[/i]. He supposed he would never know. He looked down at his hands as there was silence. His hands didn't feel clean. He would have done whatever he could, to have rescued her. 

As she started to speak, he listened, looking up. He took it all in, not interrupting. Letting her talk, letting her just speak. Right up until the end. "I'm not a scientist. I like science. But its not who I am. If all the data is piling up against you, you need to ask yourself this. Why am I still here? Why would I have bothered to break into a high security facility to save you, if you meant nothing to me? Facts are facts, but facts can be completely emotionless, and not worth the time. If we went with the facts, the science of it all, no one would have powers=it just wouldn't be possible. We wouldn't be here, and chances are we'd just be a couple of normal teenagers complaining about math, or wondering whose party to go to, or whatever normal teenagers do, and reading about super heroes and villains in comic books-well, I would at least"

Although Connor doubted, greatly, that he would have ever just been a normal teenager. "the only facts I care about right now are these: I'm not going to bail. I'm not going to betray you. I'm not here to take advantage of you, and use you. I'm not doing this for any ulterior motive. I care about you. You can trust me. You can depend on me. I've never given anyone, any reason to not believe they can, or that I"m going to betray them" He frowned "Actually, maybe Anthony, but that's Anthony" 

He didn't look away, he made no move to even move, not yet. "You say I'm too hero. That I wouldn't be willing to get my hands dirty, and perhaps, before coming here, before meeting everyone, before this, us, I wouldn't have been willing to. Now...well, now things are different. So you can pull up your shields, hold me at arms length, continue to expect that I'll be like everyone else in your life so far, and don't give a damn, use you, betray you, not be there when you need someone-like now, but Kijani, I'll be there. Just there, chipping away at the shields, the distance, offering small bits of reassurance, until you believe I mean what I say. [i]I care about you, and its your own fault[/i]. You just don't see it. You don't see your value, because of your parents, your grandmother and whoever else. But I do." 

And finally, he couldn't take it anymore, couldn't stand it anymore. "Please don't cry. I hate seeing you cry" He wanted to hug her, to try and make it all better but he was afraid she'd flinch away