[It feels wrong to say it. Wrong to think it. Wrong to pretend this could be real, that this could be possible, because if he entertains the notion that anyone could just exist and fucking materialize into being after being confirmed dead for years (who pulled the trigger on some of those Freelancers, Agent Washington? Who thumbed the triggers on the explosives that pulped their corpses to jelly and reduced their armor to useless scrap, per Command protocol?), if he pretends such a thing was possible, he'd end up on the fucking precipice of something he doesn't - ]
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["Alive."]
[It feels wrong to say it. Wrong to think it. Wrong to pretend this could be real, that this could be possible, because if he entertains the notion that anyone could just exist and fucking materialize into being after being confirmed dead for years (who pulled the trigger on some of those Freelancers, Agent Washington? Who thumbed the triggers on the explosives that pulped their corpses to jelly and reduced their armor to useless scrap, per Command protocol?), if he pretends such a thing was possible, he'd end up on the fucking precipice of something he doesn't - ]
[An asymptote he doesn't want to cross.]