Chapter 5- What is left for the monster?

Smallwood's warm welcoming office, she barely recognizes that she is in it. She stares blankly at the man who goes on about what a terrible person she was for trying to save Steven.
She doesn't speak, not once. And he takes this without hesitation as her showing that she was beaten.
Her jaw is set and her eyes are fixed only on his form.
He stands up and walks over to the window and she follows him, standing directly behind him. He speaks again, tired overused words.
Her jaw tightens more as he boasts and then gives false laments to her loss.
Then he says the name, the false name and she does what she had been wanting to do for a long time.
She waits until he faces her, and when he does show flies upwards.
Her hands grip his suit and he is lifted off the ground.
He jokes, he actually jokes that she can't do it. That she can't hurt him without getting in trouble or being put on his list.
And she lowers him to the ground and lands, he laughs and straightens his suit and informs her of her place.
And she laughs a cold heartless angry laugh. And for the first time he shows a flash fear. But that flash is destroyed when the girl he had pushed too far hit him so hard he flew out the window.

WordGirl stood in front of the broken window and watched as Rowan Smallwood flew across the lawn and scraped grass up as he slid hard against the ground.
Her jaw remained set, even as she flew slowly down to him. People nearby, realizing what she had done cried out in outrage, shouting at WordGirl, telling her that she was horrible.
She didn't care; instead she waited for the Monster to get back up again. He was coated with dirt, and he clutched his shoulder with his other hand.
"What on earth?!" he screamed at her, "You little b*tch!"
People around him echoed his statement despite their usually kind natures, some stepping forward to go help him only to be sent back by a glare from the young superhero.
Smallwood had blood pouring from his mouth, mingling with his own saliva as he screamed at her.
"What is wrong with you?! Have you gone completely crazy!?"
He stood up and swayed on his feet, stepping forward to attack her.
He lunged only to land in the dirt as WordGirl sidestepped and gave him a swift kick in the rear.
"There's no point in fighting me Rowan," she said plainly.
"How dare you call me by my first name!" The name said, wiping blood and dirt away from his mouth with his torn sleeve, "I am Mayor Smallwood to you!"

"No you're not."

Smallwood swore a few more times, all directed at the young girl. He pulled off his suit coat revealing small cuts from the window glass.
A large shard was stuck in one of his arms and WordGirl felt an added squeeze to her heart, she felt strangled and lifeless as she stepped forward and grasped Smallwood's wrist. He tried to pull away only for her grip to tighten.
"Let go of me!" he cried, swinging his fist at her face. It seemed that he had completely lost it, lost his politician's attitude. And yet everyone around him was still acting sweet and caring, and hating WordGirl.
"I'm going to take this out," she said softly, gesturing to the glass. Smallwood shook his head, "No, leave it in so that everyone can see what you've done! Show them the real monster you are!"
WordGirl remained unfazed, "I'm not the monster. I'm not like you."
She tore at the sleeve until it was gone, revealing not just the wound caused by the glass. But an arm which was completely burned, his flesh was odd and morphed almost melted in appearance; it had clearly failed at growing back its skin the right way.
Her mouth became a thin line as she used set about removing the glass, she then wrapped Smallwood's torn shirt sleeve around the bleeding wound.
All the while the Monster didn't speak, he merely looked away.
When she was done WordGirl released him and he dropped to his back on the ground.

What could she do next? Leave Smallwood and search his office? The shouts of angry townspeople around her was blocking her thoughts, she was unaccustomed to being hated.
Suddenly a small flashing green light caught her attention, it lay in the grass near where Smallwood had fallen.
WordGirl stepped forward and picked it up with care. The item itself was small and round, it had several switches but the most obvious ones were "On" and "Off".
"The mind control device," she mouthed, this was how he was doing it!
"You like it?" Smallwood asked as he spat into the grass, "I had it made specially." His voice took up an almost mocking tone.
"It's not like idiotic Mr. Big's simple product; this beauty is subtle and slowly sways you to my opinion."
Why was he telling her this? Had he realized that he was defeated? Or was he merely mocking her to give her a false sense of security?
Her jaw remained set as she watched Rowan Smallwood's attempts to stand; it hurt to watch him flounder as he was.
"So you used it to become Mayor," WordGirl said,
Smallwood gave a cold chuckle then winced, his ribs were probably bruised, "Of course I did!" he shouted.
"Why are you telling me this?" she finally asked, ignoring his anger. Her fingers pressed the off button, and her mind felt freer than before. The people around her seemed to stop shouting but Smallwood didn't notice.
"Because you are so pathetic I wanted to throw you a bone!" He said sharply, "these people are my puppets to control, they adore me!"

Outrage was suddenly in their voices filling the area and WordGirl knew that she had won.

Smallwood crumpled to the ground as he realized it too, mumbling "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" to himself, blood pouring from his mouth and staining his chin with each word. WordGirl knew that it wasn't major, and pretty soon he would be able to walk. Which was her plan.
Slowly she walked forwards and grabbed his shoulder, "Why Rowan, why did you do all of this?" she asked.
The Monster didn't respond for a few moments, giving her a glare, "Why should I tell you huh?" he demanded, "Why should I?"
"Because I want to know how someone could kill someone like Amazing Rope guy or Chuck, how someone could stand hurting their families like you did."

Rowan seemed to consider this for a moment before he let out a soft sigh, "I used to live in Fair City," he explained, "When a new Villain who called himself Pryo came to town… I was-" his voice faltered, "I was at the bank with Clarissa when he robbed it!"
"The entire building burned leaving the husk of unburnable bricks, my arm was burned horribly when I tried to drag Clarissa from the building. She didn't make it out alive."
"After that he left Fair City and so did I, I hunted him down and had him murdered. But I knew that Clarissa would have wanted more! So I came back to vanquish every single piece of filth in this town!"

Silence.

WordGirl ran a hand through her dark hair, she found this story didn't make her hate him any less. Yet she decided that she couldn't send him to jail, he would die in there.
And so she pulled him to his feet and flew upwards so that she was looking directly in his eyes, "After all that you've done I feel as though I should sentence you to death. But as I said I'm not like you, and so I'm giving you this once in a lifetime offer…" She paused, tears brimming in her eyes.

"Leave."

"Leave Fair City and never return, and if you ever hurt anyone again I will know about it! The Crime detector now knows about you and if you do anything your face will come up on my screen."

Smallwood swallowed a few times before he nodded because there was nothing left for him. Nothing left for the Monster. Only revenge and he could no longer complete that.
He stared straight into the Superhero's eyes, his own filled with so much hatred while hers were filled with sorrow.
Finally she released him and he crumpled to the ground once more, she turned to the crowd that had formed around her.
"I propose that the former Mayor take his position again!" she said and everyone cheered. She watched as Smallwood stood up again and walked away, and she knew it was for good.

"Now if you'll please excuse me," she said, her voice wavering, "I have some families I have to offer condolences too."

The End!

Man, even when I killed people it didn't feel this dark!
But there you go, I apologize for the fuzzied (*) swear I put in there if that offends anyone I apologize deeply.
It's over; I considered putting an epilogue in but decided to leave it the way it was.

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