[He can take everything else. It's his fault, of course, and he knows that already. He knows he screwed up and that Garrus was bailing him out. That's already wounding his pride enough, but he won't sit back and let Joker tell him that it wasn't for the right reasons.]
I was doing your job. I was keeping those people from becoming more missile fodder. You can throw any military protocol crap you want at me, but it doesn't mean anything if we aren't pulling them out of the fire.
[He turns back sharply as if he were magnetically repelled and takes several strides on the momentum. Then he turns back, hackles raised and muscles tight.]
You're right. It shouldn't have happened to him. It wasn't supposed to happen. I thought he knew better than that.
They are brothers in arms for being jerks.
[He can take everything else. It's his fault, of course, and he knows that already. He knows he screwed up and that Garrus was bailing him out. That's already wounding his pride enough, but he won't sit back and let Joker tell him that it wasn't for the right reasons.]
I was doing your job. I was keeping those people from becoming more missile fodder. You can throw any military protocol crap you want at me, but it doesn't mean anything if we aren't pulling them out of the fire.
[He turns back sharply as if he were magnetically repelled and takes several strides on the momentum. Then he turns back, hackles raised and muscles tight.]
You're right. It shouldn't have happened to him. It wasn't supposed to happen. I thought he knew better than that.