Yeah, Marc does not trust that this is not going to get looked into.
"Listen. Kid.
This is not me twisting your arm as your fuckin' temporary inmate, this is me offering you one for free as somebody that I get along with, alright?
I like you, but I'm protecting something that I don't have any right to -"
Marc swallows hard.
"- do any more damage to than I already have. Not for you, or me, or my graduation, or anything. There's someone else here from my world, and he cannot know that I am here, or it will break him. I don't post, I don't go out while he's awake, I don't...
He's an innocent guy. I'm the bad guy here, I get the burden of figuring it out. I can tell you what's going on, but you need to know that's what I'm up against. I am responsible for this guy and I am really, really trying not to fuck him up as bad as the people who were supposed to keep me or you safe fucked us up. Okay?"
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"Listen. Kid.
This is not me twisting your arm as your fuckin' temporary inmate, this is me offering you one for free as somebody that I get along with, alright?
I like you, but I'm protecting something that I don't have any right to -"
Marc swallows hard.
"- do any more damage to than I already have. Not for you, or me, or my graduation, or anything. There's someone else here from my world, and he cannot know that I am here, or it will break him. I don't post, I don't go out while he's awake, I don't...
He's an innocent guy. I'm the bad guy here, I get the burden of figuring it out. I can tell you what's going on, but you need to know that's what I'm up against. I am responsible for this guy and I am really, really trying not to fuck him up as bad as the people who were supposed to keep me or you safe fucked us up. Okay?"