[ His expression doesn't change, but tension pulls at the threads of his carefully held sanity. Hermione doesn't need to explain herself to him any more than she has. He knows exactly why she did it, and what it would take for her to do it again.

There's a small part of him that is grateful that she refused his offer. She'd be the first to turn down a legendary ex-assassin like him. It isn't enough to shake how it felt to resort to reseting the timeline to save her, all because of one little slip. ]

I believed my siblings wouldn't either. [ That comes out more forceful than he intends, and he grimaces at what he didn't mean to admit. It's a miracle he hasn't had to pull that trick more often with how many times his family died in front of him. ]

...All of you idiots don't realize how fragile you are. Life doesn't play fair just because you do.