[ Will isn't going to insult either of them by trying to convince James that he'd never hurt him. They both understand that this isn't something that comes from a conscious place for the other man.

Instead, he exhaled a slow breath and moved his hand from the other man's shoulder to the side of his face. ]

James, if I run it's just as likely to trigger your instinct to chase down and kill. [ Let's not delude ourselves into thinking that there hadn't be targets who had tried to run,

And failed. ]

We're better off trying to anchor your mind to here and now, preferably with a focus on a good memory. Something from your past, before the war?