[He's ripped off band-aid after band-aid until the number of agents who don't know the truth rapidly dwindles. It reaches the point where Jack knows he has to tell the rest of them, before they find out from the others. It's painful either way, but if he confesses it first, then he has the chance to explain himself. The real challenge is making it happen--one of those things that's easier said than done.
But he steels himself and heads out to Chioni, knowing that's where Mei lives and works. More power to her, really, given the climate on the planet, but she's never let anything like that stop her. She's looking for security detail for her current research, and he takes the opportunity, knowing it's going to be his best chance to break the news gently.
He still harbors no small amount of guilt for what happened to the Ecopoint, and as he helps haul her equipment, gun in hand, he perhaps allows himself to believe that this is his way of making it up to her.]
Here. I can get that, too.
[One of many advantages to being a genetically-enhanced super soldier: he makes an excellent pack mule and he barely breaks a sweat doing it.]
mei
But he steels himself and heads out to Chioni, knowing that's where Mei lives and works. More power to her, really, given the climate on the planet, but she's never let anything like that stop her. She's looking for security detail for her current research, and he takes the opportunity, knowing it's going to be his best chance to break the news gently.
He still harbors no small amount of guilt for what happened to the Ecopoint, and as he helps haul her equipment, gun in hand, he perhaps allows himself to believe that this is his way of making it up to her.]
Here. I can get that, too.
[One of many advantages to being a genetically-enhanced super soldier: he makes an excellent pack mule and he barely breaks a sweat doing it.]