Normally something that would cause Scott alarm and he doesn't completely bury that touch of concern. Despite feeling like a wreck himself, he hasn't fully turned off his empathy for others, that driving want to protect others... it's just been heavily buried. But seeing that the teen doesn't appear to be in pain or anything, he temporarily shoves it back, letting his earlier grief take over.
Well, mostly using that grief to fully understand what Charles is saying to him. Relating to that pain in a way that few can probably get. It definitely doesn't make it go away, but it's helping and that small realization is more than anything that he received in the past year. Scott's just glad that this person Charles is talking about isn't fully gone, just not here. There's a ping of jealousy, an ugly emotion that nearly gets him to shrug off the hand on his shoulder, but that deep loss in him isn't false.
He really understands.]
...It happens when you deeply love someone. [Scott lets out a shaky breath.] Just hard being separated from them because you've always been connected.
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Normally something that would cause Scott alarm and he doesn't completely bury that touch of concern. Despite feeling like a wreck himself, he hasn't fully turned off his empathy for others, that driving want to protect others... it's just been heavily buried. But seeing that the teen doesn't appear to be in pain or anything, he temporarily shoves it back, letting his earlier grief take over.
Well, mostly using that grief to fully understand what Charles is saying to him. Relating to that pain in a way that few can probably get. It definitely doesn't make it go away, but it's helping and that small realization is more than anything that he received in the past year. Scott's just glad that this person Charles is talking about isn't fully gone, just not here. There's a ping of jealousy, an ugly emotion that nearly gets him to shrug off the hand on his shoulder, but that deep loss in him isn't false.
He really understands.]
...It happens when you deeply love someone. [Scott lets out a shaky breath.] Just hard being separated from them because you've always been connected.