Tucker had seen him at his worst but not him at his coldest, most ruthless. He'd seen a man driven by desperation and cowardice but not the agent Washington he'd once been.
He'd been a real piece of shit and Wash readily owned up to that fact.
"I think he'd probably approve of that. It's a terrible idea. You could kill someone with it." Wash didn't have it in him to work up any true outrage or exasperation over this plan.
But then Tucker was pulling back slightly and looked at him with so much sympathy and so many questions in those brown eyes and the ex-Freelancer felt his throat threaten to close up from the amount of emotion choking him.
Did he regret doing Recovery?
Only. Every. Single. Day. He'd regret it for the rest of his life and beyond.
"Of course I do, Tucker. Every damned day but it put me in the position I needed to be in so that I could take the Director's entire house of cards down. That trade-off makes up for any sacrifice I made." All of Freelancer's sins had been dragged into the light including the truth about the Simulation armies. But at least Leonard Church had such a light cast on him that he'd never been able to destroy another set of agents lives in the process of chasing his mad goals.
"I imagine it's different for every person. You'll figure out how to deal with it too in your own way and time." Those bleak words when coupled with the dull light in the blond man's eyes seemed more like a creepy portent than anything else.
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Date: 2016-06-16 05:15 am (UTC)He'd been a real piece of shit and Wash readily owned up to that fact.
"I think he'd probably approve of that. It's a terrible idea. You could kill someone with it." Wash didn't have it in him to work up any true outrage or exasperation over this plan.
But then Tucker was pulling back slightly and looked at him with so much sympathy and so many questions in those brown eyes and the ex-Freelancer felt his throat threaten to close up from the amount of emotion choking him.
Did he regret doing Recovery?
Only. Every. Single. Day. He'd regret it for the rest of his life and beyond.
"Of course I do, Tucker. Every damned day but it put me in the position I needed to be in so that I could take the Director's entire house of cards down. That trade-off makes up for any sacrifice I made." All of Freelancer's sins had been dragged into the light including the truth about the Simulation armies. But at least Leonard Church had such a light cast on him that he'd never been able to destroy another set of agents lives in the process of chasing his mad goals.
"I imagine it's different for every person. You'll figure out how to deal with it too in your own way and time." Those bleak words when coupled with the dull light in the blond man's eyes seemed more like a creepy portent than anything else.