[Jesse didn't mean just his own freedom. It suddenly clicks now, all those things he couldn't seem to make sense out of. The contradictions aren't quite so puzzling anymore, now that he sees the bigger picture. The disappointment that was coloring his features shifts, becomes something almost helpless as he rakes one hand in his hair.]
Dammit, Jesse--we never asked you to do anything like that for us.
[There's a tone of frustration in his voice, but it's not angry frustration. Because all this makes way too much sense, and he feels--upset? distressed? annoyed? he doesn't know--that Jesse's suffered so much for something like this. Something so stupid and noble and did he mention stupid.]
I don't--I don't want it, and I don't think I'd be the only one.
[He jerks up his arm, that REGISTERED tattoo just barely visible in the dimmer light of the bar.]
This--getting rid of these? It's not worth it, not if it costs the lives of people who won't come back. How could any of us accept that freedom, knowing what was sacrificed in the process?
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[Jesse didn't mean just his own freedom. It suddenly clicks now, all those things he couldn't seem to make sense out of. The contradictions aren't quite so puzzling anymore, now that he sees the bigger picture. The disappointment that was coloring his features shifts, becomes something almost helpless as he rakes one hand in his hair.]
Dammit, Jesse--we never asked you to do anything like that for us.
[There's a tone of frustration in his voice, but it's not angry frustration. Because all this makes way too much sense, and he feels--upset? distressed? annoyed? he doesn't know--that Jesse's suffered so much for something like this. Something so stupid and noble and did he mention stupid.]
I don't--I don't want it, and I don't think I'd be the only one.
[He jerks up his arm, that REGISTERED tattoo just barely visible in the dimmer light of the bar.]
This--getting rid of these? It's not worth it, not if it costs the lives of people who won't come back. How could any of us accept that freedom, knowing what was sacrificed in the process?