your life is your own

“A heavy burden can be shared.”

“You seem to really dislike me.”

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Then, miraculously, you stumble into a teenager who you immediately recognize as having potential. He could help you. Given training, he could be better at your job than even you are.

But no, he wants no part of that life. He's only recently found a peaceful life and won't give it up. It's for the best, you tell yourself. He's too soft anyway. He could never make the hard decisions that you do, and it might even get him killed in the end. (And maybe you want that life for him. You want him to keep that side of himself that you had to discard).

And then. On what should be a routine mission (nothing is ever routine when the kid is involved) you find out that this kid, who wants no part of your work and lives in the middle of fucking nowhere, has inherited a book full of like. The fucking nuclear codes. And has been regularly dodging assassination attempts for as long as you've known him.