All right. If he could be honest about this, so could she. She'd certainly spent enough time with Betty learning how to actually open her mouth and talk. Even if what she said when she was determined to speak had a tendency to be overly blunt, it had worked for them.

"I'm concerned," she said. "Professionally... I was your doctor when you were coming out of a 70-year coma. I'm the first person you actually remember meeting since you woke up. And you've gone on the run with me instead of making your own new life, which - I appreciate having you with me, I honestly do, but this isn't a very good life. You would, objectively, be better off without me."

She sighed. "Even aside from that, I come with more baggage than just the giant green problem and the General hunting me. I'm just not really worth that much trouble."