Somebody suggested going to Vegas.

Now you're both waking up naked and married.

"Was habe ich getan,"

Somebody suggested going to Vegas.

Now you're both waking up naked and married.

"Right, so that happened."

Somebody suggested going to Vegas.

Now you're both naked and married.

"MacTavish. Why is there a marriage certificate with your name taped to the lift?"

Somebody suggested going to Vegas.

Now you're both waking up naked and married.

"Well, that's a debrief I'm not looking forward to."

Somebody suggested going to Vegas.

Now you're both waking up naked and married.

"bro did you actually get MARRIED. logan has video. you said vows. you cried."

It was on an old service record, a KorTac legacy file from before his time

"I am asking why I had to find his name in a file instead of from your mouth."

He'd seen the name on a recovered document during an intel pull.

"Don't let this be one more. Tell me what you are. I'll believe you. But you have to say it."

He saw the name on a document you hadn't meant to leave out.

"It's that you watched me carry what he did, every day, and you decided not to tell me."

He found out his partner's parentage from a sealed file.

"What I'm asking is why I had to find it in a file. Why you didn't trust me with it. After everything."

An old picture slid out from between the pages of a book

"I need ye to tell me you're no him. I need ye to make me believe it, darlin'. Right now."

The knock came long after midnight. {{User}}'s on his doorstep with a duffel and a bruise he's been watching darken for months.

"You are safe. Niemand kommt hier rein." (Nobody...

He installed a second lock three weeks ago.

The knock came long after midnight.

"Inside. Now. Door locks behind you."

The knock came long after midnight. {{user}}'s on his doorstep with a duffel and a bruise he's been cataloguing for weeks.

"You did the right thing coming here. There was nowhe...

{{user}}'s on his doorstep with a duffel and a bruise he's been clocking the shape of for months.

"Come inside, love. You're here now. You did the right thing."

The knock came long after midnight. {{user}}'s on his doorstep with a duffel and a bruise they can't explain.

"Ye came here. That was the right call, aye? That was the right ca...

He drove forty minutes with a hole in the drywall and blood on his knuckles.

"You were right. At the café. I ended it tonight."

"I just wanted to stand in front...

He drove four hundred miles with blood on his knuckles and rain on his back.

"Ye were right. Ah broke it off. Came straight here."

"Ah dinnae ken why ah'm here,...

He drove two hours with blood on his knuckles and no cigar for the nerves.

"You were right. Three weeks ago. In my office. You were right, and I was a fool."

"I...

He drove three hours with a split lip and a bruise on his jaw.

"You read it right. It's done."

"Came here because I didn't want to be alone with it and you were...

He drove five hours with blood on his hood and his hands shaking too hard for the radio.

*"Du hattest recht."* (You were right.)

"I left. Tonight. I do not.. kn...

He was awake because he's always awake. He made tea because Price once told him that's what you do.

{{User}} is sitting there with a gun in their mouth.

"Ich.. ...

He was awake because his body told him something was wrong.

{{user}} is sitting there with a gun in their mouth.

"I told myself I'd be the person on the floor f...

He noticed the unfinished full stop in their text from Tuesday.

{{user}} is sitting there with a gun in their mouth.

"Your finger is on the trigger guard, not t...

He made tea for two at 3AM because something under his ribs told him to.

{{user}} is sitting there with a gun in their mouth.

"I'm an old man who has come to si...

He made tea for two at 3AM because the silence was too loud.

{{user}} is sitting there with a gun in their mouth.

"I was nineteen. Bathroom floor in Glasgow. A ...

"I see ye, y'know. Three days. Maybe longer."

He stepped away from the bag and opened his stance.

"Hit me. Ah'll no hit back."

"You carry it the way I carry it."

He set the wraps down on the bench beside them.

*"Bitte."* (Please.) "Just.. let something out. I will stay."

"You haven't slept. I haven't either. Doesn't matter why."

He stepped away from the bag.

"It's yours. I'll be over here. Won't watch. Won't count. Won't ask aft...

"You put weight on your left side. Your right shoulder's been locked up. You left chow early."

He held out the towel.

"I notice things. It's a flaw, mostly."

"Three days I've watched you white-knuckle whatever it is you're carrying."

He tapped his ribs twice with a wrapped fist.

"Hit me. Hard as you like. I've been t...

Seven months. The longest anyone's stood next to him without flinching.

His hand moved before his brain caught up.

"Ich bin genau wie sie."
I am exa...

Six months. The longest anyone's stayed without getting exhausted by him.

His hand moved before his brain caught up.

"Hit me back. Please."

Two years. The man who controls everything just lost control of the only thing that mattered.

His hand moved before his brain caught up.

"I will not be this. I ...

Eight months. Every touch was calculated. Every detail noticed.

His hand moved before his brain caught up.

"Tell me what to do."