[He grinds his teeth a little, knocks his head back against the hull of his rover in frustration where he's sitting. It matters. She's out of his reach back there either way, but he's never been one to give up easy. One is a bit more impossible to surmount than the other. (Even if she's here now—)]
I don't want that.
[Even after everything, he doesn't particularly want her dead, or suffering. Even now, here. He wanted to stop her, and he wanted to understand her. He didn't want to be in a position where he'd have to kill her. She put them there just as much as he did.
(And he could have killed her, then. Maybe he would have, if things had gone differently. He'd even wanted to, once. Desperately. In the forest, before he knew who it was he was facing. And that's terrible, but it's also true, and he knows it. He should just wholly hate her, it would be easier on both of them, but he can't.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
is that why you're here?
[To be alive. Free, for a given value of it. When they recruit you, they ask you a question. And often they make you an offer, dangle a reward in front of your nose. Many, like Eren, are tricked into this with a half-truth. Or a flat out lie. Some people are more aware of what they're getting into.
no subject
I don't want that.
[Even after everything, he doesn't particularly want her dead, or suffering. Even now, here. He wanted to stop her, and he wanted to understand her. He didn't want to be in a position where he'd have to kill her. She put them there just as much as he did.
(And he could have killed her, then. Maybe he would have, if things had gone differently. He'd even wanted to, once. Desperately. In the forest, before he knew who it was he was facing. And that's terrible, but it's also true, and he knows it. He should just wholly hate her, it would be easier on both of them, but he can't.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
is that why you're here?
[To be alive. Free, for a given value of it. When they recruit you, they ask you a question. And often they make you an offer, dangle a reward in front of your nose. Many, like Eren, are tricked into this with a half-truth. Or a flat out lie. Some people are more aware of what they're getting into.
So what did they say to Annie?]