He stood quickly and abruptly without a trace of pain evident. "Intimidation don't even enter into it." He looked down at her with an icy and unfriendly coldness in his eyes. "We finish this and you forget what you saw. Otherwise I'm gone."
He did not need to make any grand gesture to make his words seem more convincing. They were not a threat, but rather a simple choice to be made. He might have signed on to complete the mission, but it was not so important to him as to risk the government asking questions he didn't care to answer. If it meant abandoning her here, then he would rather face a guilty conscience than whatever her SSR goons would have in mind for him. If he left her, then he might risk losing his own chance to ever escape - but right now he knew she needed him more than he needed her. He was the one with the passcode and she was the one withe injury.
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He did not need to make any grand gesture to make his words seem more convincing. They were not a threat, but rather a simple choice to be made. He might have signed on to complete the mission, but it was not so important to him as to risk the government asking questions he didn't care to answer. If it meant abandoning her here, then he would rather face a guilty conscience than whatever her SSR goons would have in mind for him. If he left her, then he might risk losing his own chance to ever escape - but right now he knew she needed him more than he needed her. He was the one with the passcode and she was the one withe injury.