[ same filter ]
[She might have pieced that together, yeah. Though she thinks there is definitely emotion in Reid and logic in Derek too.]
We were a group of mutants who wanted coexistence between humans and mutants. We tired to stop Apocalypse and save whatever lives we could—liberating labor camps, destroying genetic processing facilities, trying to stop the cullings. That kind of thing. It was a lot of fighting. We were out manned and out gunned, and we fought just as hard and as dirty as we needed to.
My hands aren't clean. I was barely fourteen when they trained me as an assassin.
[A confession. But this time, unlike many others with people in the dome she isn't saying it to push him away or provoke a response. She's saying it to be straight with him. It's a technique that didn't work with Garcia and she's probably crazy to go back to it, but she doesn't want to lie about who she is to people who mean so much to Reid.]