"Or trouble attracts you?" he asks, the corner of his mouth lifting into another small smile. Somehow he feels like that might be the more likely option and it isn't as if he can hold it against her. John isn't exactly well known for keeping a low profile and he's sure Finch would be inclined to say the same thing about him. It isn't that trouble is attracted to him, it's that he goes looking for it more often than not.

It hadn't been that way before. While he was living on the streets of New York, he had done everything in his power to simply disappear, but things have changed since then. Since he started working for Finch, for the Machine, he'd learned something about himself and he knows he can't simply stand by when someone needs help. So perhaps he goes looking for trouble, but not without good reason.

"Even so, I don't think I'll regret it," he says honestly. "That just means you might need me more often than you think."