Mako. He goes down, I go down. There's no way around that. What the hell were you even thinking?
[And that's actually not why Raleigh is so loyal. He can talk about her double crossing him and sending him to prison for the rest of his life but that doesn't mean anything, it's not the fear of being arrested that's driving him.
It's that Hannibal Chau has a way of knowing things about people that no one else does and of taking care of his own. It's how he could have had Raleigh killed but didn't, decided to bring him into the club, how he took Raleigh aside one day and said he knew about the accident, knew who the other driver was, and knew where to find him.
God help him but he went there, and of course that drunk driver was a member of a rival club and there was no walking from any of this, no way to pretend like he wasn't involved if he killed that guy. It was like his final exam, kill him, avenge his brother, start a war between the clubs, be Chau's right hand man, and Raleigh passed that test with flying colors.
He doesn't love the things that they do sometimes, doesn't relish in the drugs and murder, but it gives him a purpose, and if he has to tell himself that he's here because of Yancy, for Yancy, then that's just how life is.]
I'm not a rat. That's how this works. I've got their backs and they've got mine.
[That's not the answer she probably wants but he's not telling her that he started because he needed a purpose and stayed because the club helped him get some closure for Yancy and that he's still here because he's so fucking loyal to something, that if he says he'll do it, he'll do it.]
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[And that's actually not why Raleigh is so loyal. He can talk about her double crossing him and sending him to prison for the rest of his life but that doesn't mean anything, it's not the fear of being arrested that's driving him.
It's that Hannibal Chau has a way of knowing things about people that no one else does and of taking care of his own. It's how he could have had Raleigh killed but didn't, decided to bring him into the club, how he took Raleigh aside one day and said he knew about the accident, knew who the other driver was, and knew where to find him.
God help him but he went there, and of course that drunk driver was a member of a rival club and there was no walking from any of this, no way to pretend like he wasn't involved if he killed that guy. It was like his final exam, kill him, avenge his brother, start a war between the clubs, be Chau's right hand man, and Raleigh passed that test with flying colors.
He doesn't love the things that they do sometimes, doesn't relish in the drugs and murder, but it gives him a purpose, and if he has to tell himself that he's here because of Yancy, for Yancy, then that's just how life is.]
I'm not a rat. That's how this works. I've got their backs and they've got mine.
[That's not the answer she probably wants but he's not telling her that he started because he needed a purpose and stayed because the club helped him get some closure for Yancy and that he's still here because he's so fucking loyal to something, that if he says he'll do it, he'll do it.]