Shit like this doesn't happen in the real world. People don't get programmed to be assassins. People don't get stripped of everything that made them a person in order to become a weapon. It was the sort of thing you saw in Hollywood action movies, not in somebody you were having a conversation with.

People used to think the same thing about Vampires, though.

"I don't believe that." There's a softness in her voice as she says that, Scarlett leaning forward, leaning her other elbow on her knee so it takes most of her weight. "I was in that Cabin with you - we were talking. The only reason you did it was because you believed it wouldn't work. It wasn't automatic, not like when you came at me. You made a choice, to follow an order because you thought it would be okay."

Maybe he would have done it anyway and she had it all wrong but it wasn't so automatic that he couldn't reason out what he was doing.

"If you can decide that something is going to be okay to do, you can learn to make a choice not to do it."