[This? Was stupid. Eli knew that much. He couldn’t actually think of a single thing in this whole ordeal that didn’t scream ‘Stupid’ everywhere.
Lying to his grandma about a study group? Stupid. She’d eventually find out what he was really doing, she always did. And then he’d have to face that disappointed look she good and the ‘son, you should know better’ stance she was so good at giving. Billy had been right: there is no guilt as grandma guilt.
The fact that he had had to find another way to do this was also stupid. Yes, he was through being Patriot but please, a black kid hiding his face and kicking ass all around? Yeah, like that wasn’t going to get him noticed eventually. He was pretty sure he’d actually been spotted once or twice by the police already, but since it had actually made their job easier for them they let him go. Catching him wouldn’t have been that easy anyway, Eli knew that- but not that easy isn’t the same as impossible.
And then there was the fact that he was actually out crime-fighting again. After he’d quit, again. After he had left his best friends and pushed them away to do their own thing because he was through being Patriot. And he had indeed given up on that identity… but he knew he hadn’t just given that up when he’d decided to hang the suit. It was more than a secret identity. And by doing this he was breaking his friend’s trust, and he wasn’t sure they’d forgive him if they ever found out.
When they did.
He was so busy making a list of all the ways this had been stupid and thinking of quitting once more (he did that every single night, he always ended going out the next day. Stronger than him) he didn’t even really look to who he was jumping in to defend when he saw a guy threating a cute girl with a knife for her purse. If he’d really been paying attention he would have realized he already knew the girl, knew her fairly well actually. What other rich girl would be walking around when it was almost midnight anyway?
But as it was he was too busy jumping in and kicking the guy’s arm while still having his face completely covered so he wouldn’t be recognized to notice.]
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Lying to his grandma about a study group? Stupid. She’d eventually find out what he was really doing, she always did. And then he’d have to face that disappointed look she good and the ‘son, you should know better’ stance she was so good at giving. Billy had been right: there is no guilt as grandma guilt.
The fact that he had had to find another way to do this was also stupid. Yes, he was through being Patriot but please, a black kid hiding his face and kicking ass all around? Yeah, like that wasn’t going to get him noticed eventually. He was pretty sure he’d actually been spotted once or twice by the police already, but since it had actually made their job easier for them they let him go. Catching him wouldn’t have been that easy anyway, Eli knew that- but not that easy isn’t the same as impossible.
And then there was the fact that he was actually out crime-fighting again. After he’d quit, again. After he had left his best friends and pushed them away to do their own thing because he was through being Patriot. And he had indeed given up on that identity… but he knew he hadn’t just given that up when he’d decided to hang the suit. It was more than a secret identity. And by doing this he was breaking his friend’s trust, and he wasn’t sure they’d forgive him if they ever found out.
When they did.
He was so busy making a list of all the ways this had been stupid and thinking of quitting once more (he did that every single night, he always ended going out the next day. Stronger than him) he didn’t even really look to who he was jumping in to defend when he saw a guy threating a cute girl with a knife for her purse. If he’d really been paying attention he would have realized he already knew the girl, knew her fairly well actually. What other rich girl would be walking around when it was almost midnight anyway?
But as it was he was too busy jumping in and kicking the guy’s arm while still having his face completely covered so he wouldn’t be recognized to notice.]