[ the more he's pushed, the more he wants to fight it, even while there's a fight going on inside him, too.

he doesn't want to lose lexi. but he'll lose him either way, won't he? ]

I...

[ he shakes his head. ]

Tell me everything would be the same. Tell me we'd be the way we are here, today, that people would look at me and see a person and not a blood bag. Tell me that I'd be fighting the system that hurt my people and not part of it.

Tell me that and I'll say yes right now.