North? I know you have no way of knowing this, but I busted my ass for months trying to get my team to a place where they could handle themselves if anything happened to me.

You want to be funny, fine, I get it. Just don't undermine that aspect of things. I'm already going to have to get Tucker back to normal when America's done fucking with him, and that's going to be a hell of a lot harder if he doesn't trust me.

[Not that he thinks Tucker will throw away the deeper levels of their trust that easily, but he's pretty damn volatile where his dick is concerned and damn if surface damage isn't hard to work past.]