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[feralego]

@vitalphenomena | rafa & burns

He shouldn't be doing this; he shouldn't be pulling this kid into this whole mess. And the way his knuckles blanche as he grips the steering wheel of his old truck is an indicator that he knows this, and that it's tearing him up inside.

But what choice does he have, really?

The cops wouldn't give a shit even if he did trust them with this; even if a good chunk of them are directly in Osborn's pocket; even if he didn't have to worry about the masochistic billionaire going after Gabriela to shut him up.; even if, legally and literally, he would be buried if anything ever came out in the mainstream media

"You know you don't have to do this, right kid?" Rafael asks, staring straight ahead through the windshield, his tattooed neck noticeably tensed. "You didn't know James. And he-- Fuck, he's not gonna be happy about me dragging you along for this."

Rafa laughs a little at the thought: James chewing his ass about having Burns along to help get things done quicker while the three of them make their escape. The sound is unnatural and quickly choked out by more sobering emotions.

"Osborn. He's-- He's a bad guy." His hands flex on the steering wheel, then one drops down to touch the party favor Oscorp had given him in exchange for his NDA. He knocks his knuckles against the metallic prosthesis. "But he's real good at making people think he's not. He does charities and scholarships and green energy and legitimate medical research too."

Sighing, he loosens up a little. Just a little.

"I don't want the people working on stuff like that to get hurt, okay? Even if they're working for him, they probably don't know who he really is. We gotta be smart about what we do."

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