"I want you to go. I want you to be safe. I need you to be safe, Axel, you deserve better than this." He knew there was no hope for him, but Axel was different. Axel had to be different. If he couldn't keep Axel and his family safe, than there was nothing right in the world any more.

"I'm not going to let you die. You're going to be fine. You're right, you're not made for this and I won't let them break you." Hartley longed for the time when he could have normal conversations. Normal anything. Hell, last time he'd tried a one-night-stand Reverb had interrupted him.

And he'd killed people. He'd made people things they'd have never done. He'd broken his principles. He didn't want to see Jerrie again, because how was he supposed to meet Jerrie's eyes after all this?

"We'll find a way to get you out. Then you can just send me emails from Atlantis."