Nah. He's been a dedicated pain for this long, he's not going to give it up to drop dead now. I have every confidence he'll figure something out.
[Ratchet watches him for another moment, considering, and his voice is quiet when he speaks again.]
You scare the hell out of me sometimes, you know that? Not because you could bench-press three of me, or whatever, just-- [His vents heave in a soft sigh.] Its a hell of a thing you're trying to do here, and it's hard, and sometimes it means you're going to have to make decisions like that one where there's no good answer. But it was little things like that that made the worse things easier, necessary decisions that were made that let things get so bad. I know you know all this, but--look. [Ratchet appears to struggle with himself for a moment, trying to say what he really means.] A few months before I got here, if you put me in front of the Megatron I knew with a gun in my hand, I don't know if I would have hesitated to fire. Now, here, if things go wrong again... I honestly don't know if I could.
It scares me. [Frankly.] It scares the hell out of me. I'm getting too damn old to keep shooting at people I care about. But that's why I keep crawling up your tailpipe about it, not... because I don't trust you. And I'm proud of you because I know you're making the best decisions you can, even when I'm not giving you a hard time. They might not all be ones I agree with, but I think you're trying not to lose sight of why you're doing what you're doing. That counts for a lot, with me. It's what keeps me thinking that things might turn out all right.
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[Ratchet watches him for another moment, considering, and his voice is quiet when he speaks again.]
You scare the hell out of me sometimes, you know that? Not because you could bench-press three of me, or whatever, just-- [His vents heave in a soft sigh.] Its a hell of a thing you're trying to do here, and it's hard, and sometimes it means you're going to have to make decisions like that one where there's no good answer. But it was little things like that that made the worse things easier, necessary decisions that were made that let things get so bad. I know you know all this, but--look. [Ratchet appears to struggle with himself for a moment, trying to say what he really means.] A few months before I got here, if you put me in front of the Megatron I knew with a gun in my hand, I don't know if I would have hesitated to fire. Now, here, if things go wrong again... I honestly don't know if I could.
It scares me. [Frankly.] It scares the hell out of me. I'm getting too damn old to keep shooting at people I care about. But that's why I keep crawling up your tailpipe about it, not... because I don't trust you. And I'm proud of you because I know you're making the best decisions you can, even when I'm not giving you a hard time. They might not all be ones I agree with, but I think you're trying not to lose sight of why you're doing what you're doing. That counts for a lot, with me. It's what keeps me thinking that things might turn out all right.