[It's like being struck. Actually, for Cassel, it's almost worse. He'd take pain over this assumption, this insult, any day.]
[There are people back home who still believe this about him, he knows. That he's nothing but a villain. And he's built that assumption up in their minds by being self-destructive, by being a bastard, by being an ugly soul. He's hurt people to make them hurt him back. He's stripped his own soul away to make a point.]
[But that's not who he is anymore - not who he wants to be. He doesn't need revenge. That isn't why he's here.]
[The fact that Horatio thinks it is is enough to make tears start at the corner of his eyes, though they don't fall - enough to make him want to leave the room and never look back.]
You bastard. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not like that anymore.
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[There are people back home who still believe this about him, he knows. That he's nothing but a villain. And he's built that assumption up in their minds by being self-destructive, by being a bastard, by being an ugly soul. He's hurt people to make them hurt him back. He's stripped his own soul away to make a point.]
[But that's not who he is anymore - not who he wants to be. He doesn't need revenge. That isn't why he's here.]
[The fact that Horatio thinks it is is enough to make tears start at the corner of his eyes, though they don't fall - enough to make him want to leave the room and never look back.]
You bastard. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not like that anymore.