It takes Jim longer than it should to sit down in the offered chair. As though he doesn't think he deserves even that right now. His hands tremble and fidget with nothing to occupy themselves with. He sighs deeply and shakes his head.
"I saw the guy who took the brunt of the attack. The one who launched the end assault. He's not...there's no way he should have been in the line of fire. He's barely bigger than a child." Steven Rogers isn't someone the captain knows personally, but is a familiar face in the Nexus and someone he knows about through people like Amelia, Blaze, and Harrowheart.
"Couldn't hold it down right now." The admission is raw and honest. Jim squeezes his eyes shut and lowers his head while he gathers up his thoughts.
"He got hit pretending to be me, Rey. If I'd have been faster..." If he'd have killed Khan after the attack on the Starfleet headquarters in London....how many lives would that have saved? "It's my fault all of these people died. Khan came from my world."
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It takes Jim longer than it should to sit down in the offered chair. As though he doesn't think he deserves even that right now. His hands tremble and fidget with nothing to occupy themselves with. He sighs deeply and shakes his head.
"I saw the guy who took the brunt of the attack. The one who launched the end assault. He's not...there's no way he should have been in the line of fire. He's barely bigger than a child." Steven Rogers isn't someone the captain knows personally, but is a familiar face in the Nexus and someone he knows about through people like Amelia, Blaze, and Harrowheart.
"Couldn't hold it down right now." The admission is raw and honest. Jim squeezes his eyes shut and lowers his head while he gathers up his thoughts.
"He got hit pretending to be me, Rey. If I'd have been faster..." If he'd have killed Khan after the attack on the Starfleet headquarters in London....how many lives would that have saved? "It's my fault all of these people died. Khan came from my world."