[ her tears break what bits of his heart that somehow managed to hold together this long. he didn't want her to know, he didn't want her to see - he wanted to just be winn, not toyman jr. not...someone who might at any day - lose his mind. he's spent years not understanding how his father could go from being a doting father to a homicidal madman overnight but now, holding kitty, hearing her story...he can conceive it, and it terrifies him to his very core.

I don't want to lose you hits him harder than he was prepared for. she could lose him in so many ways he has no control over - their overlords could take him away, or his mind could - and after what she's already been through - how can he keep that possibility from her? selfishly, he wants to. he wants to believe that kara's right - that this could never happen to him, that he's good. but what if he isn't? kitty's been through enough. ]

I don't want to lose you either.

[ he clings to her for a moment, before pulling back. more than anything, he wishes he could reassure her right now - say you never will. but it would be dishonest, it would be selfish. and he can't be selfish with kitty. ]

There's something -- you deserve to know. My dad - before everything - he was a really good dad. And I am -- just like him, his mini-me, his greatest creation is what he called me. He snapped and those genes, that possibility...it's in me, too. [ she deserves an out. and even if she takes it -- he won't stop fighting to save her. his world is big enough for the both of them, even apart. ]