Fics like pressure creates diamonds (fire refines gold)

but he is made of flesh. and he burns. --- “When was the last time your parents made you feel worthless?” his psychologist asks. Tommy’s pulls out a record of every time it’s happened. Every time he got hit, every time they threatened him, every time he felt like jumping off his fifteen-story balcony remembering something they said. It’s been a long time since he’s started keeping track. “You were building a case to take them to court.” she realises, eyebrows raised. “They weren’t going to get to kill me,” he says. He looks up. He has his father’s temper. He always has. He’s always simmering under a poker face he learned at his mother’s feet. “I was ready to take them down first. No matter what it took.” --- Read the author's note.

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