[Sans being inscrutable with their data drives Wash crazy - he does better if he can talk through something, and silence utterly stifles that.]
[But that's not why he's here, and that answer wasn't a no, so he'll take it.]
If I start talking like Alex or Kaede - if I start sounding like...someone else - can you call me on it?
[It's so, so easy to slip, and even easier not to notice that you're doing it, and- he can't. He can't go back, but he doesn't trust Wonderland not to drag him there.]
[Agent Washington hasn't been subsumed by the echoes of Director Doctor Leonard Church in a long time, and Wash damn well wants to keep it that way.]
no subject
[But that's not why he's here, and that answer wasn't a no, so he'll take it.]
If I start talking like Alex or Kaede - if I start sounding like...someone else - can you call me on it?
[It's so, so easy to slip, and even easier not to notice that you're doing it, and- he can't. He can't go back, but he doesn't trust Wonderland not to drag him there.]
[Agent Washington hasn't been subsumed by the echoes of Director Doctor Leonard Church in a long time, and Wash damn well wants to keep it that way.]