“Like I wouldn’t come with you, Richard.” Because of course she would because this was her story still even if she never got to tell it. Alex Reagan had helped spin the wheels of it, putting it in motion in more ways than one. And even if she hadn’t, even if she wasn’t coming because she was following that thread, there’s no way that Alex wouldn’t have gone to remind him that humanity was worth saving.
It was. It is. And Alex is going to remind him of that as much as she needed to.
But Alex just frowns at him for a moment, not understanding what he’s saying. Alex Reagan was just normal before she’d gotten involved in this and maybe he means it that way? Like other people who are a touchstone for the hybrid’s humanity or whatever. But she has a sinking sensation in her gut that it’s more complicated than that. “What do you mean ‘like me’?”
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“Like I wouldn’t come with you, Richard.” Because of course she would because this was her story still even if she never got to tell it. Alex Reagan had helped spin the wheels of it, putting it in motion in more ways than one. And even if she hadn’t, even if she wasn’t coming because she was following that thread, there’s no way that Alex wouldn’t have gone to remind him that humanity was worth saving.
It was. It is. And Alex is going to remind him of that as much as she needed to.
But Alex just frowns at him for a moment, not understanding what he’s saying. Alex Reagan was just normal before she’d gotten involved in this and maybe he means it that way? Like other people who are a touchstone for the hybrid’s humanity or whatever. But she has a sinking sensation in her gut that it’s more complicated than that. “What do you mean ‘like me’?”