From now on, you can't use some half-assed thing that Loki probably said without thinking about it as a tool to ignore me. [Jason highly doubts that it even held the same weight when Loki said it. Nothing about gods applies to humans in the same way, and Jason's seen the way that Loki can take a wound. Even with one of the worst cuts imaginable, he managed to just bear it.

Of course, that would be too telling.]

So, I need you to agree to that. Before I start. No picking and choosing just because it's convenient to the selfish crap Hiro wants to do. Because selfishness is what has your head on a block. If I walked away from you right now? You'd be dead.