"That is not your call to make," he snaps back immediately. "Letting me make my own decisions means giving me the ability to make bad ones, regardless of your opinion of them!"

God knows John had hated him going off on his own course, had more than one pointed out that his stubborn determination bordered on idiocy. But yet. Yet. Every time he would always choose knowing more, no matter what the cost was.

"And if that's not going to work for you, then none of this is going to work at all. We are trying to break into a hospital and ask after a secret fucking murder victim, what part of this strikes you in any way as a safe expedition? If Pollock finds out about any of this we are both getting re-educated!"