[L's a complicated individual. A lot goes on behind his dark eyes... but empathy is not particularly one of them. He struggles to see things from the perspectives of others, and when he succeeds, they just happen to be some of the most monstrous beings imaginable. He wasn't built or bred to relate to others on a healthy, positive level, not when he was always on the extreme end of a life-or-death manhunt that was as thrilling as it was perilous.

He mulls over the open-ended proposal, shallowly exhaling, listening carefully and without open judgment to her examples. Simple but effective; drugs, sex, work.]

You can think of several things that you want, that have worked in the past. But my involvement is key?

[He still doesn't quite believe it. Maybe he sort of wants to, given her charisma, given the intrigue she spins around the encounter.]

You really wouldn't use your involvement with me, or anything you might find out as a result, to hurt him?