[Fugo doesn't interrupt Abbacchio as he speaks, or look away from his face for an instant. But it would be difficult to miss the way he tightens further; how his mouth twitches and his eyes narrow. Does Abbacchio sincerely believe that? Fugo doesn't think so. That morning in Venice, on the steps of the San Giorgio Maggiore, they were all given the opportunity to decide for themselves what sort of lives they wanted to live.]
That's objectively untrue.
[He can't keep the bitterness out of his voice. Of course it's easy for Abbacchio to talk about it that way. After all, even if his reasons were selfish, even if he regrets it, he still made the right decision. He didn't betray Bucciarati's ideals, or abandon Trish to her fate. He took the step. He got on the boat. He moved forward.]
There was nothing "right" about an argument that involves allowing an innocent bystander get murdered to preserve the status quo. More than that, I put the entire team in a terrible position by refusing to follow Bucciarati. You can't say that my absence did not have an affect on the rest of the mission.
[That morning might not have been a test, but there was still a right and a wrong decision to be made. Even if it saved his life, Fugo's decision was the wrong one.]
You can feel however you want to about it. But I don't want to hear any false platitudes about what happened, or the choice I made. It was wrong.
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[Fugo doesn't interrupt Abbacchio as he speaks, or look away from his face for an instant. But it would be difficult to miss the way he tightens further; how his mouth twitches and his eyes narrow. Does Abbacchio sincerely believe that? Fugo doesn't think so. That morning in Venice, on the steps of the San Giorgio Maggiore, they were all given the opportunity to decide for themselves what sort of lives they wanted to live.]
That's objectively untrue.
[He can't keep the bitterness out of his voice. Of course it's easy for Abbacchio to talk about it that way. After all, even if his reasons were selfish, even if he regrets it, he still made the right decision. He didn't betray Bucciarati's ideals, or abandon Trish to her fate. He took the step. He got on the boat. He moved forward.]
There was nothing "right" about an argument that involves allowing an innocent bystander get murdered to preserve the status quo. More than that, I put the entire team in a terrible position by refusing to follow Bucciarati. You can't say that my absence did not have an affect on the rest of the mission.
[That morning might not have been a test, but there was still a right and a wrong decision to be made. Even if it saved his life, Fugo's decision was the wrong one.]
You can feel however you want to about it. But I don't want to hear any false platitudes about what happened, or the choice I made. It was wrong.