Ben could remember, in the time before Allana, when people had been swapped out and Caedus had been very close to burning the city down. Allana was right, it was sick and, personally, Ben didn't get it. The Senior Partners and the PTB had been together on not wanting his uncle to bring on the Apocalypse with Ruby's direction, now they had Sam to poke at him. They'd lost clients and employees and allies when Caedus had last walked this city, now they had Jacen to poke at him.
The only explanation was that evil made people fucking morons.
But then she was looking up at him, all big grey eyes and tears and fear and sadness and fucking mother fuck so pretty and just so close... and he forgot what he had intended to say.
Fuck, Winchester, focus, focus on what she said, oh shit what did she say? Something about using... no, trying. Trying this again, maybe?
"They can try all they want, it's what Solos do, you know, get kidnapped."
Of course she knew, it was a running joke because it was so ridiculously true. It just wasn't funny when Jacen was in the middle of one of those kidnappings and he could have kicked himself for saying it because it was just going to bring up every bad thing that had ever happens and how sometimes, it almost seemed like those things wouldn't end with a rescue.