Which trapped them. Didn't kill them. [ God, he hopes not, anyway. Only one way to find out, and Jim mentally tries to steel himself for - he doesn't even want to think it but - finding Claude's body.
Jim didn't want to think about what they could have achieved, had he and Spock both been completely stripped of their inhibitions. Everyone they'd caught could have been dead and Gwen - Jim doesn't know if he would have been able to kill her, but he does know he never wants to find out. ]
You got it. [ Jim pulls it together in a beat, setting his shoulders back with the veneer of command confidence - even if he didn't really feel it. Especially when he didn't really feel it. That's when he needed it the most, after all. Jim takes a breath, ready to turn and head off to the oubliette - but he turns, briefly, back towards Gwen. ] I'm sorry, Gwen.
[ It can't make up for it right now - he'll have many more apologies to make, depending on how this all goes down - but he gives it to her anyway. ]
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Jim didn't want to think about what they could have achieved, had he and Spock both been completely stripped of their inhibitions. Everyone they'd caught could have been dead and Gwen - Jim doesn't know if he would have been able to kill her, but he does know he never wants to find out. ]
You got it. [ Jim pulls it together in a beat, setting his shoulders back with the veneer of command confidence - even if he didn't really feel it. Especially when he didn't really feel it. That's when he needed it the most, after all. Jim takes a breath, ready to turn and head off to the oubliette - but he turns, briefly, back towards Gwen. ] I'm sorry, Gwen.
[ It can't make up for it right now - he'll have many more apologies to make, depending on how this all goes down - but he gives it to her anyway. ]