Morgan & Maddie | Day Two, After the Quarantine
Morgan probably wouldn't have been as calm as she was about this, if you could call what she was feeling under her cool facade calm, if it wasn't for two very important facts. 1: While her parents hadn't ever really loved her, they had made sure she knew how to use her powers. Morgan had always suspected it was more self-preservation than anything else, but it had still benefited her in the long run. She wasn't worried about accidentally doing anything nefarious to Maddie. And 2: She was somehow entirely certain of the fact that he wasn't going to leave her. Even if she told him horrible things, confessed to being the type of person who would influence someone that way, she had somehow become entirely confident in their love.
That might have been even scarier than this whole life or death game, to be honest.
When he took her cheek in his hand, Morgan leaned her face into the touch, trying to keep her negative emotions to a minimum. Every cell in her body screamed at her to lash out, because that was the only way she'd ever been taught to deal with things that upset or made her uncomfortable. She fought not to turn on Maddie and push him away before he could leave because he finally realized she wasn't worth it (a fact her parents had ingrained in her long ago). It was so hard to sit there and trust that he was going to keep loving her, even as confident as she was, because her brain was at war with her heart 24/7. Always reminding her that she'd been fooled before, replaying various accusations and belittlements her parents had thrown at her over the years. Making her think about how nobody in her family had even bothered to speak with her since she'd almost died. She'd never had anyone that cared about her, accepted her, before. She still didn't think she deserved it.
"I wouldn't blame you if you did. It was pretty fucked up. Even worse than sleeping with people and fucking with relationships and feelings," she said softly, but she managed a soft smile. "Besides, you're just trying to act like you're still the more rotten of us and you can't stand the fact that I finally won," she added, attempting to bring a bit of their typical teasing into this otherwise shitty situation.