I'm cross that I felt it when he punched you in the face. I'm not cross that it happened; frankly, you deserved it, and I can't help but admire the decisive pragmatism with which Connor executed the act.
[All of this is true. The deeper and more complex, fraught feelings are tamped down carefully, tucked and stapled and covered in plastic and wheeled to the corner of the morgue. Maybe it can be revisited later; maybe it's time to go back in the drawer, and maybe someone else will have cleaned up the mess the next time L bothers to look.
It's never happened before, but he can hope.]
I'd hate to deprive you of a powerful and valuable ally, but at the rate you're going, I'd hardly have to. How many more entanglements are you going to implicate yourself in before someone manages to do some serious damage? What happened before you came here with Rich and Jeremy is what it is, but taking lives and controlling the freewill of a friend with magic is just sloppy.
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[All of this is true. The deeper and more complex, fraught feelings are tamped down carefully, tucked and stapled and covered in plastic and wheeled to the corner of the morgue. Maybe it can be revisited later; maybe it's time to go back in the drawer, and maybe someone else will have cleaned up the mess the next time L bothers to look.
It's never happened before, but he can hope.]
I'd hate to deprive you of a powerful and valuable ally, but at the rate you're going, I'd hardly have to. How many more entanglements are you going to implicate yourself in before someone manages to do some serious damage? What happened before you came here with Rich and Jeremy is what it is, but taking lives and controlling the freewill of a friend with magic is just sloppy.
I don't find "sloppy" acceptable.