"It started off that way. It got a lot more complicated as time went on." A game of cat and mouse as Ivar plotted to kill Dodger even as he grew grudgingly more fond of him and with Dodger learning to respect the Viking at the cost of quite a few body parts. Plus there's the part where they slept with each other, though Ivar is sure this Dodger wouldn't be surprised to hear that at all.

If he has to go through all that to teach the mutant not to mess with him, he's gonna be so pissed. It had taken a long time to train this dog to Ivar's satisfaction, close to a full year. He can be that patient again, but he will not be looking forward to it. Maybe he'll just skin him alive again. That had been a good lesson to enforce.