Her head tilts a little and her hands move to her hips.

"Why not?"

Shrug.


It's a 'you haven't noticed?' sort of shrug.

She hasn't.

So Jenny shakes her head in a very doubtful sort of way.

"Do you want to know why I think you're the best person I know?"

Doubtful look.

But okay, he'll hear her out.

"You don't care what other people think of you," Jenny begins, walking over and taking his hand in hers. "You don't judge other people. I think you really do care about others even when you have a hard time trusting them otherwise you wouldn't have come with me to New Thal. Because I saw you there and that wasn't just about making me feel better."

She pause for a moment, trying to collect her thoughts. "You're a hero. And a survivor. And you believe in second chances or I don't think we'd be talking right now."

"Ye-ah."

Running a little low on belief, here. ._.

"I'm not a hero."

"You're not?"

You could've fooled her.

"No."

She gave his hand a gentle squeeze.

"Why not?"

Shrug. "I'm just... I'm not, okay?"

"Why?"

Helpful shrug.




Still trying. It's not easy, though!

"Bart," she says softly and gently. "Please give me a reason?"

"I'm just not, okay? The criminal thing kind of gets in the way."


And obvsly, he never does anything heroic.

Because stopping a war isn't heroic.

Still doubtful, "What criminal thing?"

"Stealing? It's kind of against the law."

...So's other stuff, too, but he won't get into that.

"But you do it to survive," she answers. "I think there's a difference."

Like her commandeering her spaceship.

Shrug.

Again.

She won't lose her temper. She won't lose her temper.

She might whine a little.

"Well?"

"I'm just... not. Can we move on?"

"Don'y you believe me?"

This isn't going to work, is it?

"I... don't think you know everything?"

:D?

It isn't.

"Then tell me. Please, Bart? It's the only way I can know."

And somewhere in the couple of months she's known him, Jenny's found herself growing more serious about having Bart in her life than anybody else she knows. Said seriousness shows in her face.

"I can't... I don't know what to say."

:)?

Fine.

"Then I guess I don't have a reason not to believe you a hero."