Becoming

[spongetastic]

It would be so easy to find an excuse for what he did. But deep down Peter knew that no amount of excuses could hide the fact that it was all him. An outside force might have tipped him over the edge, but the core of it was still inside him. The anger was certainly there; Peter had always been the passionate type.

But there was more. It was so easy for his finger to form into a point, for his mind to make an incision into skin, to kill… No, there was definitely some level of awareness in all that. It was a darkness he could always feel but never wanted to face. Certainly it wasn’t something he wanted anyone to face. Once they did, everything would change.

What was he becoming…? Or worse, what had he already become?