[ Wash had wanted to save him. That's what all of that was for, wasn't it, for the Alpha, for his friends. Payback. Revenge. And god, where did that get him. He rubs his fingers against his brow, shaking his head, dropping his hand to rest it back on the table. ]
He saved me, really. [ He would be dead, if it weren't for Church. Another one of those deaths he didn't deserve to survive. ]
No -- they got me out again after a few months, when they needed me. Funny how that tends to work. [ Another smile, this one not exactly cold, but dry, bitter, and what happened after. Working with the Meta, part of him hoping for some semblance of Maine after the EMP, only to realize day by day that Maine was dead and gone. Everything he did at the time . . . There's so much to regret. So much more he should never have survived. ] Long story short, I didn't keep my end of the bargain, and I stuck with the sim troopers that I picked up from before. I've been looking out for them ever since.
Right before this we'd ended up on some backwater planet, one of those outer colonies that the UEG might as well have forgot. We were dropped right in the middle of a civil war that had nothing to do with us -- group got split up, and we ended up taking sides. [ A sigh. ] Sound familiar?
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He saved me, really. [ He would be dead, if it weren't for Church. Another one of those deaths he didn't deserve to survive. ]
No -- they got me out again after a few months, when they needed me. Funny how that tends to work. [ Another smile, this one not exactly cold, but dry, bitter, and what happened after. Working with the Meta, part of him hoping for some semblance of Maine after the EMP, only to realize day by day that Maine was dead and gone. Everything he did at the time . . . There's so much to regret. So much more he should never have survived. ] Long story short, I didn't keep my end of the bargain, and I stuck with the sim troopers that I picked up from before. I've been looking out for them ever since.
Right before this we'd ended up on some backwater planet, one of those outer colonies that the UEG might as well have forgot. We were dropped right in the middle of a civil war that had nothing to do with us -- group got split up, and we ended up taking sides. [ A sigh. ] Sound familiar?