If you came back, you might not have gotten out again.
[ There was only so much York can do. He doesn't know exactly how much knows, what exactly he was told to drive him to help Tex that day, but he'd known enough to make a choice and known enough to leave. But Wash -- Wash knew everything. He knew everything. If he'd just pulled himself together faster, if he hadn't spent so long trying to claw the memories out from his own mind, if he'd just.
He could've helped them. All of them. ]
No. No, we haven't. [ And you never do -- he's sorry, York, he hates that he's keeping this from you, but there's only so much he can handle at once and he doesn't think he has any idea how to tell you you're dead where he comes from, that the last time he saw you, you were crumpled heap on the ground, still in armor, already cold. ] They pulled me off duty for a while, due to my -- condition. Took me back on when they needed me, though, figured I couldn't possibly have had anything to do with what went down, figured that they could trust me.
[ No need for details, not now, there'll be time for him to tell the specifics. Right now Wash just wants to try to focus on the broad strokes, to give him an idea of most things that've happened in the past years -- just so he'll have more context, when he reaches the more. Difficult things. ]
It was their mistake. [ A smile -- cold. ] I got the Project shut down.
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[ There was only so much York can do. He doesn't know exactly how much knows, what exactly he was told to drive him to help Tex that day, but he'd known enough to make a choice and known enough to leave. But Wash -- Wash knew everything. He knew everything. If he'd just pulled himself together faster, if he hadn't spent so long trying to claw the memories out from his own mind, if he'd just.
He could've helped them. All of them. ]
No. No, we haven't. [ And you never do -- he's sorry, York, he hates that he's keeping this from you, but there's only so much he can handle at once and he doesn't think he has any idea how to tell you you're dead where he comes from, that the last time he saw you, you were crumpled heap on the ground, still in armor, already cold. ] They pulled me off duty for a while, due to my -- condition. Took me back on when they needed me, though, figured I couldn't possibly have had anything to do with what went down, figured that they could trust me.
[ No need for details, not now, there'll be time for him to tell the specifics. Right now Wash just wants to try to focus on the broad strokes, to give him an idea of most things that've happened in the past years -- just so he'll have more context, when he reaches the more. Difficult things. ]
It was their mistake. [ A smile -- cold. ] I got the Project shut down.