"I don't want to damage you! Or anybody. I-"

She winced hard, balking at the history she never spoke about. Not to anyone, not if she could help it. But she needed to.

"I was a war doctor. I had to do things that- well I need to make up for it. If we can help it at all, I just want to escape." But if he had to face someone other than her, she could put him together again. She could save his program. Do something.