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not me, another woman will fill that place. Because if I don't, and you refuse to bind yourself, you will be taken away to a place I cannot go, and we will never see each other again. Because if I don't, you will try to escape so that you can go back to the Fighters, and the risk of you getting hurt again is big. I don't ever want to see you get hurt again.”
    He watched her for a while, studying her facial expressions and body language. There was something she wasn't telling him. She seemed too scared, too nervous, too desperate.
    “What is the real reason, Avril? You wouldn't put yourself through all that just to save me. Binding yourself to a Fighter is like asking for trouble. We are difficult, damaged, untrustworthy. Don't you know that?”
    She nodded. “I know, but you smiled at me as soon as you recognized me. You will never hurt me.”
    She had a point. If another woman had walked in it would have been a completely different story. He knew he would have never hurt the woman, but he would have scared her into changing her mind about him. He would have shown her his worst sides, but with Avril, he just couldn't do that.
    “What is the real reason, Avril?” he asked again, this time with a more demanding tone.
    He watched her swallow and move nervously on her chair. She opened her mouth. He saw her lips tremble. She had been close to tears for a while now, and she seemed even closer now.
    “I ... I want to help you.”
    “So you are doing this out of guilt? You feel that you owe me because I helped you when you were a child?”
    Her chin dropped and she stared at him with huge eyes. “No, it's not like that.”
    “Then how is it like, Avril? You realize that once I'm bound to you, you will never get rid of me, right? It will be for life. You won't be able to throw me out once you grow tired of me.”
    She looked down and he realized he had hurt her. He immediately regretted his words, but she needed to know the truth. She needed to see the truth in the eye and not expect some kind of fairy tale. He wasn't sure she saw it like that, but he often wondered how the women who wanted to bind a Fighter to them thought. The Fighter's problems didn't go away just because a new bond was in place. Sure, he would feel better, but his programming would still be scarred and damaged from what had once happened.
    “I will never grow tired of you,” she said with a low voice.
    Confusion grew within him, but at the same time, he became more and more certain that she was hiding something. There was another reason she was doing this.
    “I'm damaged, Avril.”
    “I know. I've read your files.”
    He winced. “My files?”
    She nodded. “Doctor Jade Silva showed me your files yesterday. She wanted me to be sure before you and I met.”
    “Of course.” He sighed. “And what did my files say?”
    “That your programming is severely damaged because of the broken bond. It makes you unstable and gives you restless nights. You switch easily between emotions and anger controls you. You know, all that could be fixed if you bound yourself to me. Jade told me that a few days ago.”
    He snorted. “I guess she got the chance to examine me when I was asleep.”
    “No, I don't think she did. She told me they wouldn't do that against your will.”
    He snorted. “Against my will? She drugged me over and over again. Where was my will then?”
    He glared at the one-way window. He couldn't see through it, but he was sure that Jade was on the other side of it. If she tried something like that again, he would make her pay. He wouldn't physically hurt her, but intimidation was something he was good at. Yes, his anger drove him. His anger had been his partner ever since Sarah had died, but his anger had also kept him alive. Living among the Fighters wasn't easy. Most had some sanity left. He was one of them and because of that, he was able to help Nightmare with his goals, but some Fighters had to be kept restrained. Not only were they a