“ i have survived far too much to go quietly. ”
- en battant tristement dans mon cœur si lourd!
“So don’t.” The laugh that slips from his lips is a little bit wry, maybe even a little bitter, but it isn’t mocking - he knows pain, and he is not about to belittle someone else’s.
He breathes out, all smoke and sin leaving his body in a great whoosh, far louder in the silence than he means it to be, and he taps the ash dangling from his cigarette away with a sigh.
“Fight ’em. Scream. Make everybody sorry. Get knocked down, get back up, get real used to copper on your tongue.” He grins at Pietro, all sharp teeth and candy-coated, something that had always tried a little too hard to be perfect before saying fuck it and kicking the shit out of anyone that got too close, too kind. “Kiss your knuckles ’fore you smack ’em down, make it personal, and keep surviving. Out of everybody, you - maybe you can outrun all of this shit and leave it behind.”