[That's an even trickier question, because Jack's choice had been entirely rooted in circumstance--and at the time, it had seemed like something he had to do. His patriotic duty, or something like it. Thinking about it now feels like something he didn't even live, like the person who signed his body away to the US government at twenty years old isn't even him. In many ways, he wasn't.]
I wouldn't have met Gabriel.
[Which, of course brought its own measure of strife, but he doesn't regret their friendship. Jack wouldn't be the same without him, in a large variety of ways.]
Wouldn't have been tapped for Overwatch. Wouldn't have met you.
[He meets her eyes when he says that--it's the most important thing, as far as he's concerned.]
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I wouldn't have met Gabriel.
[Which, of course brought its own measure of strife, but he doesn't regret their friendship. Jack wouldn't be the same without him, in a large variety of ways.]
Wouldn't have been tapped for Overwatch. Wouldn't have met you.
[He meets her eyes when he says that--it's the most important thing, as far as he's concerned.]