[ there are only so many ways to answer a question like that. chuck mulls over the words, the exacting quality of her tone- but he has the same answer at the end of his examination as he did before. ]
I did what I needed to.
[ if he sits down to sift through it, through two decades of anger and commitment, fist fights and careless accusations- god knows how many regrets he'll come up with. more than anyone needs, maybe. certainly more than he wants. but pretty words and perfect worlds aside, chuck will still be dead and his old man will still be a marshal and gipsy's pilots will still be heroes and the breach will still be seals. maybe alayne's right, maybe he could want for more- but more has never really been enough. so when he looks at the mess he's made and the turn out they've gotten, chuck decides that he's done alright.
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I did what I needed to.
[ if he sits down to sift through it, through two decades of anger and commitment, fist fights and careless accusations- god knows how many regrets he'll come up with. more than anyone needs, maybe. certainly more than he wants. but pretty words and perfect worlds aside, chuck will still be dead and his old man will still be a marshal and gipsy's pilots will still be heroes and the breach will still be seals. maybe alayne's right, maybe he could want for more- but more has never really been enough. so when he looks at the mess he's made and the turn out they've gotten, chuck decides that he's done alright.
he'll make his peace with it. eventually. ]