X is for Exit (SPOILERS)

A/N: I totally cheated on this one.

It was the day after Pripyat. Pooch was gone, back home to Jolene and Ashley and Jasmine. Jensen and Cougar were sitting together in silence, back at the Sheik's complex.

"Cougar... if you had a way out of this... if we could just leave, and none of this would follow us... if you had an exit, would you take it?" Jensen asked, looking over at the silent sniper next to him.

"No," Cougar replied, "I wouldn't."

"Why not?"

"Because it would just happen to someone else. You and I both know we need to stop this, Jensen. We have to end it, once and for all."

"I just hope it doesn't end us first."