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Originally Posted by Beck

Beck took a deep breath. Here goes everything.

"I want to preface with this," he began. "The reason why I don't derez programs is that... I don't believe that they deserve it. At least, most of the time. Sometimes... it does warrant that. But even then..." he sighed, then lowered his voice "I don't want to make this extensive, but... Paige means everything to me. If someone even tried to hurt her-- that would make me want to derezz them."

Originally Posted by cmdR_Paige

Paige didn't say anything just yet; she wanted to let Beck say his piece. She took Chris' disc and began patching the wound on his neck. He'd be fine-- only because she took action when she did.

"But, why do you care about her so much? I don't see why." Pavel kept in some anger and began to talk with the program. He combed his hair with his hand and waited to see if Tesler would respond.

Chris laid still, not knowing that Paige had saved him.