"In the middle of it, like an idiot. Like when the alert was blaring and I was, to her mind, playing traitor she'd TOTALLY follow me if I asked her." He hadn't trusted her then when he'd found out. Hadn't trusted anyone. He'd tried to talk to her when he had because he'd thought there was something there- and while it might have been? He didn't go about it in the right way. It'd been the wrong place, the wrong time, and the wrong scene.

He thought he was some kind of hero offering to take her away from everything.

Honestly? He'd been a douche. A selfish one. And he's trying so damn hard to not be now and Wash is NOT HELPING. "My priorities were get mine and get out. Idiot that I was, I counted her in that. Shouldn't have. It was stupid and selfish."

Another centimeter on the left cuff, fuck yeah. Who's still got it? York's still got it.