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[Gene appears, hands and clothes covered in blood, his fair share of bruises and cuts]

One of you bloody Doctors better come get your damn pet or I'm letting him bleed to death.

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I am the only thing keeping him from killing you all, the same way he killed that brat! The same bloody way I killed you and I'm not letting it happen again, you hear me?

Don't get all self-sacrificial; it makes you seem pretentious and stupid, and while I know you're the second, I didn't think you were so much for the first. Do you really think that he'd keep a promise? That what you're doing in any way counters him? Because it doesn't, Guv. All it does is bring him closer to you, and us. Manchester will end up half a savannah if you keep up with this, I promise you that, and when the people of the City you're supposed to protect get their necks ripped out of them by wandering cheetahs, it will be on your hands.

Then what do you expect me to do, Tyler? [slams a hand down, then runs his fingers through his hair, turning and lighting up] I can't beat him under normal means. I can't keep him from making me kill you again, you get that? So I play both sides, I keep tabs on him, keep him complacent until I can find out what'll take him out. And I expect you to bloody well support me because you're the only bloke I can damn well trust in this place! So tell me, Tyler. What else can I do?

I do support you, Guv, you know I do. I'll always have your back. But I can't help but see this as more harmful than it is helpful, and I can't just stand back and watch. Ignoring your safety, I don't think it's better that you spend time around him. I think it puts Manchester, as a whole, more in danger than it would if he was kept away from our world.

[doesn't answer a long time, taking a few long drags on his cigarette, then sighs, dropping it and crushing it under his heel, running a hand across his face] I've thought about this, Tyler. I can't see any other way to keep him under my thumb. And if I back out now, he'll know something's up.

Guv, I'd be surprised if he didn't know this was a play. I doubt you've been keeping your feelings about him to yourself, and you're not the sort who'd up and offer to work for someone you hate.

I would if it'd keep my team safe and you know it. [snorts] And I don't have to keep my feelings secret to do that.

But that's what I'm saying! You're not fooling anyone by claiming you came to him because you wanted to. It's a defensive, protective move. It tells him a lot and it gives him leverage. A lot of leverage.

I can't exactly undo it now, though, can I? Unless you've got some sorta bright idea that would be better?

You could walk out.

Would you?

If I thought it was the best thing.

Bullshit. You wouldn't run from a fight if you had to.

I would. If there were lives to be saved, I'd bow down and kiss someone's feet to do it. Not that I'd want to, if there was another choice available, but I would.

[shakes his head] I can't do that, Tyler. I'm not bowing for anyone save the bloody Queen.

[snappish] Then you're less than the man I thought you were.

[snaps back] And if I'm not strong enough to take on anything, what's gonna happen to my team? They expect a certain amount out of me and I'm not gonna bloody well disappoint them!

No one is strong enough to take on anything. You're not God, Hunt; you're a bloody idiot of an human copper and you've already died once. I've told you before, Guv. There are all sorts of cowardice. Being too afraid to walk away is one of them.

I am not a coward!

I say you are.

Since when did your word mean more than the paper I use to wipe my ass with?

Since long before you started putting faith in it.

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