[Most of the time, the lack of details he has about Adrien's past experience lets him chalk it up to a bad past, a nightmare, something that understandably affects his friend to this day but that he's lucky to have gotten away from. Bad people who lured him in and then put him in an impossible position.
And then something specific comes up and it gets harder. Does he even want to know if those weaponized medicines were put into effect? Does it even matter, if the willingness to do it was there? What were the consequences if he didn't act on behalf of his team? What were the results when he did? How much horror is too much?
It's a goddamn ethics class exam question, except worse because it's real and because Nate never went to school. And maybe it's cowardly—or maybe it's the right choice to make—but as always it comes down to the person he knows Adrien to be and the things he's done here, back on the Moira and now on this planet. And everything else recedes.]
I really hope that's not the case. But it's better to be aware of the possibility than it is to just be ignorant. Is there anything we can do but be ready if something else happens?
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And then something specific comes up and it gets harder. Does he even want to know if those weaponized medicines were put into effect? Does it even matter, if the willingness to do it was there? What were the consequences if he didn't act on behalf of his team? What were the results when he did? How much horror is too much?
It's a goddamn ethics class exam question, except worse because it's real and because Nate never went to school. And maybe it's cowardly—or maybe it's the right choice to make—but as always it comes down to the person he knows Adrien to be and the things he's done here, back on the Moira and now on this planet. And everything else recedes.]
I really hope that's not the case. But it's better to be aware of the possibility than it is to just be ignorant. Is there anything we can do but be ready if something else happens?