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[personal profile] rehandle 2024-02-15 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jim had pointed the same sharp stick at him a month ago when it hadn't been real. It's only fair that she wield it now that it is. But - ]

I almost killed you without even trying. I do not have a handle on this, and we don't know what I'll become.

I won't risk it. At least this way it isn't a waste.
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[personal profile] rehandle 2024-02-15 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This is the hard part. There's no accounting for that, no apologising for it when he's going to go ahead and do it anyway. To die will hurt her. He knows that.

But it won't kill her. Which is more than he can guarantee of the alternative. ]


I understand.