He's not a thing. [ That was likely far more defensive than it needed to be - more so than it should be, even, considering the history she had with Reaper. It would have been far easier to disconnect him from his humanity, to say that he was just a monster, but for some reason, the idea made her stomach twist in knots. ] You can't... call someone an "it" just because they've done terrible things or because you don't like them. He might be fucked up now in a lot of ways, but he didn't just stop being a person. [ Maybe she was too empathetic for her own good.

It was weird to think about Reaper as anyone other than Reaper, though, and she chewed on her lip as she mulled over the idea of him raising Jesse. It made her think of all the ways he'd said certain things about teenagers, the way that he had reacted with Lance when he was falling apart. ]

How do you know he's dead? If he was a good man once, what... what makes you so sure he couldn't be again? People are different here than they are at home, sometimes. Maybe he's not just parroting who he was before but able to actually have chances to be more like he was before.