"Ohh, you're one of those government-gone-vigilante style heroes huh? Was there a team or just you?"

"I know!" He says. Unable to restrain a touch of that anxious defensiveness in his voice. "I like him too! It's not that I don't want him to know I like him! He knows!" But it is of course a little of that. The last thing he wants to come off as is needy. "See! That's what I'm talking about it. It's a universally bad idea."