[ Oh he's sure she could hurt him bad if she wanted to, and not necessarily in a good way— she can be vicious like that, and that saying about a woman scorned doesn't apply to anyone else as well as it does to Betty. Well, in her case it's more like a woman angered. She's kind of scary when she's angry, and this coming from a guy who turns big and green when he's well and truly pissed.

He opens his mouth, closes it again, fumbles with his thoughts for a moment before shaking his head and shrugging. He doesn't move, not even a little, no intention whatsoever of leaving or so much as putting distance between them. ]

I just... Things got a little complicated. [ To put it mildly. ] I guess I realized I needed you. I thought I could just go back to running at first, but... I can't anymore. And leaving you at all was the biggest mistake of my life.

[ And considering the experiment and the lab incident that turned him into what he is today, that's saying a lot. ]