Should Vasquez lie and say that this is what he'd wanted? There are layers of truth to his situation and why he's back in Rose Creek, but the truth is that he doesn't want this at all. The turmoil of the question sits poorly with him, reflected in his expression as he gapes at Faraday and wonders how he can ask that.
Then again, Vasquez is the one who left in the middle of the night, so it's no wonder that Faraday doesn't know. "I want you," he spits at him, annoyed and angry. Any romance is lost in the angry way the words come out. "But I don't want to stay outside of towns forever. I don't want to sleep on the ground for the rest of my life. I don't want to think the nice people in a town will hang me when they see the bounty on my head, and I don't want you to start fussing because it's not the kind of life that I want, so how could it be one you live without it being a kind of settling?"
Does he want this, though? "The cows, the land, all of this, it's not what I want," he says, "but it's what will protect me. Emma, the others, they'll make sure I stay alive. I sleep and I eat." And he misses Faraday with everything, because he doesn't sleep enough and he doesn't eat enough and he's cold and lonely and bitter at his past.
"What better life does an outlaw get than this? Protection, food, comfort," he lists, seeing as he'd been all but given the farm in exchange for his help. "No one gets everything they want from life. At least this way, I get to keep on living it."
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Should Vasquez lie and say that this is what he'd wanted? There are layers of truth to his situation and why he's back in Rose Creek, but the truth is that he doesn't want this at all. The turmoil of the question sits poorly with him, reflected in his expression as he gapes at Faraday and wonders how he can ask that.
Then again, Vasquez is the one who left in the middle of the night, so it's no wonder that Faraday doesn't know. "I want you," he spits at him, annoyed and angry. Any romance is lost in the angry way the words come out. "But I don't want to stay outside of towns forever. I don't want to sleep on the ground for the rest of my life. I don't want to think the nice people in a town will hang me when they see the bounty on my head, and I don't want you to start fussing because it's not the kind of life that I want, so how could it be one you live without it being a kind of settling?"
Does he want this, though? "The cows, the land, all of this, it's not what I want," he says, "but it's what will protect me. Emma, the others, they'll make sure I stay alive. I sleep and I eat." And he misses Faraday with everything, because he doesn't sleep enough and he doesn't eat enough and he's cold and lonely and bitter at his past.
"What better life does an outlaw get than this? Protection, food, comfort," he lists, seeing as he'd been all but given the farm in exchange for his help. "No one gets everything they want from life. At least this way, I get to keep on living it."