People with boots on the ground having more sense than the brass? Shocker.
[His voice thaws just a little. He appreciates that someone else has the "nuke it from orbit" sentiment. He likes that he's not the only one. It makes it feel a little better to hear he's not alone, as he sits here with a gut roiling in anxiety over if what he did will screw him over. Even if it does, he's not sure he could've lived with the potential consequences of chestbursters getting loose on a rig with children. It's not the same as shooting those Red Team soldiers.]
[And after Freelancer fell and he went to jail despite - because of - effectively doing the right thing in the end, he's not used to anything ever...vindicating him. Ever.]
[He holds out a very calloused hand across the transport aisle, the one least-burned by acid.]
no subject
[His voice thaws just a little. He appreciates that someone else has the "nuke it from orbit" sentiment. He likes that he's not the only one. It makes it feel a little better to hear he's not alone, as he sits here with a gut roiling in anxiety over if what he did will screw him over. Even if it does, he's not sure he could've lived with the potential consequences of chestbursters getting loose on a rig with children. It's not the same as shooting those Red Team soldiers.]
[And after Freelancer fell and he went to jail despite - because of - effectively doing the right thing in the end, he's not used to anything ever...vindicating him. Ever.]
[He holds out a very calloused hand across the transport aisle, the one least-burned by acid.]
Washington. But I usually just go by Wash.