Title: Onus
Theme: Onus
Pairing: None
Rated: K
93. Onus
It shouldn't have been him.
He wasn't absurdly smart or athletic or strong. He wasn't anything. He was Danny painfully average in every meaning of the word, until one day he stumbled into a portal and pain shot through his every nerve and he came out, ghostly and confused and nearly irreversibly stuck as a half creature for as long as his human half lived.
The worst part was stumbling through, destroying his town and barely managing to come out as a hero. He barely had a sense or morality, as a teen, his sense of right and wrong was a moving target. He didn't know what to believe, except that anyone planning world domination deserved a swift and powerful kick in the ass. But he was given a hard decision, and he had to follow through with his choices for better or for worse, and hope it was good enough.
He fights.
He defends.
He struggles.
He chooses.
But, at the end of the day, when he collapses into bed and the town is safe, he thinks that someone could have done it better, and then this responsibility should have never been his.