[It's a good thing, he thinks somewhere in the far back corner of his mind, that they can have this moment. They can be honest, becuase in a few hours, it won't matter. They'll likely never see each other again. Their secrets will be safe.

He doesn't tell her well done, because even though that's not far from what he did, the difference is there. He wasn't pursuing revenge. He was protecting.

Years ago, he tried for revenge.]

It's usually the civilians who suffer. [Not always, with him, but more often than not - he can count them all,the women who shouldn't have been involved, who were pulled in because of him. The men he put in danger, the man who died because they counted him as a friend. He still thinks of Mathis, time and again.]

I won't encourage you to stay. [His mouth quirks. He's not that much a hypocrite.] But if that's you're reasoning, I don't think anyone would be worried about you.

[He pauses, and adds - maybe because he'll never say this to anyone else,] I went after the organization that killed someone I cared about. I killed a lot of them. And in the end, when I found the person directly responsible...

[He exhales.]

I let him live. It didn't change much. [But it changed him.]