mental link, day...36? sure.

[headinjuries]

[ Technically, it came up a few days ago, but Sam's been letting something bounce around in his head to see if the possibility gets less troublesome after he sleeps on it. And sleeps on it a couple more times.

or he's just saying it late so the newbies can hear it too, w/e

It's not getting any less freaky. So, out of left field: ]

( So if aliens can hack our emotions, do we...actually know they can't mess with everything else? Memories? Are we actually who we think we are?

What if there is no spoon? )

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[quivers]

( Yeah, well. We were friends once. Teammates, actually. But things kind of took a bad turn. )

[headinjuries]

( Oh. )

[ Well, okay, he's not trying to trashtalk anyone else's teammates. Just - ]

( He screwed with Vision. Who screwed with Ms. Marvel. )

[ - just that he's got no time for people who mess with his. ]

[quivers]

[ Kate thinks she can almost feel a bit of that disdain through the link. Or maybe it was just enough to feel it in his voice. Maybe holding onto the link at all was making her nauseous. In any case, she felt something. ]

( I'm not defending him. He's screwed with me too, and all of my friends. He betrayed the team and killed one of us. ) [ Which had his feelings within him. Oddly enough. ] ( I pretty much saw him transition into that jerk. It's just ... you get a different feeling about it when you know what was. So yeah, it does suck. )

[headinjuries]

( Yeah, that...would have to. )

[ He can't exactly relate, but he'd heard his dad's stories about Titus - good ones, and then he saw what a jerk Titus turned into. That had pissed him off.

Watching somebody go down the spiral had to be a lot worse than just finding out about it later. ]