Wipe The Slate Clean

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I think the most likely is that he would desperately look for any possibly way to save both. He may even try to do so to the death. He would definitely sacrifice himself if the synth and the sosu living would be the result.

But if the situation was so clear that there was just no possible way both could be saved, I think he’d choose his partner. This would fuck him up. He’d definitely disengage with them and everyone else. He would reel for weeks, maybe over a month. Then he would come back like nothing happened but, he would ask to be transferred.

I think (depending on where he was on his recovery journey and just how close he was to sole) he would juggle with the idea of retirement for both of them. But if he would discard that notion, he would understand that he can no longer perform his job with them around.

He would either ask to move safehouses, or ask Dez to split up their partnership so that he can fly solo again. Maybe both, probably both. Dez would of course be confused and disturbed given how effective of a team the two are, Deacon would give her nothing but persistence and eventually she would relent.

Deacon would never really interact with the sosu again. This would be horrific for both of them, and surely the sosu would try. They would talk to Dez, try to find him on their own and get him to talk (which would not work). They might even talk to their coworkers in a desperate attempt to figure out what happened. They might blame themselves for the slip up, assuming Deacon had lost confidence in them and their on-the-job abilities when really he just lost all confidence in himself.