I'm not particularly a fan of throwing my life away. I just know that when it comes down to it, I'll be the one that takes a bullet for them. So far I've managed to live though it, for what it's worth.
[Which is maybe a quiet indication that Nat's always had this streak, this way that she fights hard but is always the one willing to throw herself into the line of fire. She'd been raised on the idea that the mission was always the most important, and SHIELD hadn't so much changed that opinion as it had just given her a different target. Most of the time.
He says she's compromised and she sighs, a shrug of her shoulders and an almost helpless twitch of her lips. Not quite in humor, but more that they both know he's right- what use is there in trying to deny it? She'd told him enough, given him enough pieces to where he could understand how bad this was for her. She would like to insist that any risk she takes would be necessary for ensuring the safety of either Sonia or Byerly, but in a situation like this, she's not going to argue the point.]
I'm doing everything I can. I stole Byerly a bottle of Vorkosigan wine from Zahal so he can make nice with Micah, I'm trying to stay as involved in the Star Gate project as possible, I'm seeing what I can pick up on Lady Diya and Haut Sei, and there's the gene therapy project. [A pause, her lips thinning.] You're right; I'm seriously off-mission. It doesn't mean I wont do what needs to be done. But I can't protect her if I stay away from her, and I don't trust anyone else to be able to do it. Tarn was the one that went after her in Riverfall and I don't trust him not to try something once they let Sonia out of her cell.
[She sighs, rakes a hand through her hair.] I may have had a few words with him before. He's dangerous. I'd shoot him in the back of the head with a plasma rifle if I didn't think it would raise suspicions.
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[Which is maybe a quiet indication that Nat's always had this streak, this way that she fights hard but is always the one willing to throw herself into the line of fire. She'd been raised on the idea that the mission was always the most important, and SHIELD hadn't so much changed that opinion as it had just given her a different target. Most of the time.
He says she's compromised and she sighs, a shrug of her shoulders and an almost helpless twitch of her lips. Not quite in humor, but more that they both know he's right- what use is there in trying to deny it? She'd told him enough, given him enough pieces to where he could understand how bad this was for her. She would like to insist that any risk she takes would be necessary for ensuring the safety of either Sonia or Byerly, but in a situation like this, she's not going to argue the point.]
I'm doing everything I can. I stole Byerly a bottle of Vorkosigan wine from Zahal so he can make nice with Micah, I'm trying to stay as involved in the Star Gate project as possible, I'm seeing what I can pick up on Lady Diya and Haut Sei, and there's the gene therapy project. [A pause, her lips thinning.] You're right; I'm seriously off-mission. It doesn't mean I wont do what needs to be done. But I can't protect her if I stay away from her, and I don't trust anyone else to be able to do it. Tarn was the one that went after her in Riverfall and I don't trust him not to try something once they let Sonia out of her cell.
[She sighs, rakes a hand through her hair.] I may have had a few words with him before. He's dangerous. I'd shoot him in the back of the head with a plasma rifle if I didn't think it would raise suspicions.