If I did, there's no one I'd rather have at my back.
[It's true, plain and warm with it. It's true partly because she hates to be the one pressing Ben to be a soldier again, because Alex and Jean are mutants and she doesn't want to put them in a position to have to fight that war, because Cassel for all his terrifying power is very squishy and her baby brother, because she doesn't want to ask Bruce to kill again. But she'd pick him, if she got one choice, for virtuosity and raw, delicate trust, for sheer competence all the parts of war that aren't combat.]
Would you come?
[She will ask, for all that he seemed ready to scale the trenches earlier on nothing but her face and suspicion, because there are no debts that override this, because if they did, she would have done nothing for him at all: if he is free, he get the choice.]
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[It's true, plain and warm with it. It's true partly because she hates to be the one pressing Ben to be a soldier again, because Alex and Jean are mutants and she doesn't want to put them in a position to have to fight that war, because Cassel for all his terrifying power is very squishy and her baby brother, because she doesn't want to ask Bruce to kill again. But she'd pick him, if she got one choice, for virtuosity and raw, delicate trust, for sheer competence all the parts of war that aren't combat.]
Would you come?
[She will ask, for all that he seemed ready to scale the trenches earlier on nothing but her face and suspicion, because there are no debts that override this, because if they did, she would have done nothing for him at all: if he is free, he get the choice.]