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He never thought about himself anymore. Not Raymond Reddington, the all-consuming, almost omniscient persona he had helped to create and evolve over the past thirty years of his life…No. He meant the other man, the one who had existed before the criminal, the mastermind, the safe keeper of such dangerous secrets. But the man still existed, buried deep down, and sometimes…sometimes his actions were his own.
That is why when he saw Elizabeth Keen -Masha Rostova- shoot Tom Connolly point blank, disbanding all his carefully laid plans, burning them to ashes in his hands, it wasn’t Raymond Reddington who reacted.
No. Who reacted was someone else entirely.
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“Maybe it’s time for you to be more selfish…do what you want, not worry about me anymore” she spat “Go on, you have my blessing, I have learned this past few years, I can do this alone”
His brow furrowed.
“Selfish…” he mumbled, wonderingly “You want me to be selfish?”
“By all means Red, knock yourself out”
Red had nodded slowly, his cold eyes intense as he regarded her fully.
“Very well then, let’s try me being…selfish”