[ There is no doubt in his mind, or in his tone, when he says that. In fact, he feels very strongly about this. Barnaby thinks that it doesn’t make him a liability, simply because he has always been attached to his partner even if it hasn’t been in this specific way. They’ve been close since they became partners years ago, and he doesn’t anticipate that changing.
Nothing that the CDC could force them into would change that. Kotetsu had walked away from him once before, but he’d come back to Barnaby in the end. Considering the lessons that the two of them learned at the time, he doesn’t anticipate it ever being any other way. ]
I simply don’t understand why I should have to prove myself again when I have done so before now. Our dynamic isn’t changing. He and I have always been close. So why is there suddenly such scrutiny when there was little before?
[ Or was there, and people simply hadn’t made their misgivings known before then. ]
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[ There is no doubt in his mind, or in his tone, when he says that. In fact, he feels very strongly about this. Barnaby thinks that it doesn’t make him a liability, simply because he has always been attached to his partner even if it hasn’t been in this specific way. They’ve been close since they became partners years ago, and he doesn’t anticipate that changing.
Nothing that the CDC could force them into would change that. Kotetsu had walked away from him once before, but he’d come back to Barnaby in the end. Considering the lessons that the two of them learned at the time, he doesn’t anticipate it ever being any other way. ]
I simply don’t understand why I should have to prove myself again when I have done so before now. Our dynamic isn’t changing. He and I have always been close. So why is there suddenly such scrutiny when there was little before?
[ Or was there, and people simply hadn’t made their misgivings known before then. ]