...You won't want to hear most of what I have to say about all of this. Not that I fault you for it - after all, why would you? If I do anything, it would be killing you as well and we both know it.

So really, there's no reason for you to offer me sympathy. I don't expect it, and arguably I don't deserve it - though I know that's always a losing argument with you.

[There's that odd, defensive sort of bite behind his words again; he isn't trying to shrug Jaeger off, but he's going very tense.]