"I was never saying you shouldn't do it." Alec wished he wouldn't, but he knew Peter couldn't stop himself. Alec couldn't either, even when he pretended he could. Like when he drove away from those kids in the barn with an 'I'm saving myself, good luck' air and then turned around and helped to save their ass in the end. As much as Alec wanted to be selfish, in the end, he couldn't quite like bad things happen either. Not anymore, anyways. Not since Max had freed him.

"You just have this way of making it sound like you're going on some trip to an amusement park or something and you don't stop to acknowledge how fucked up something is. Like you think you're invincible." He sighed and found a wall to lean on. "I've seen that before. I've seen it in kids your age and in people my age. Hell, even I used to be like that. Those people always got hurt. Or worse - I got people killed for thinking I was some untouchable bad-ass." He had turned his fear into over-compensation and that hadn't been good.

"Now I just acknowledge I'm scared and turn it into energy to fight." He paused. "My enemy back home is stronger than us and doesn't feel pain and are harder to kill than any transgenic ever made - scared means we don't underestimate them."