He didn't really doubt. Not at the heart of things. Still, it makes him feel sick to hear it. He can't even imagine how Peter feels...
He pushes himself so slow, sliding his trembling and aching bones across that steel floor. He stops by Peter's side and reaches an arm over him.
"Come here, Chamaco. I got you," He says. He grips Peter's shoulder tight, then lifts that same hand to push back the boy's hair before settling down over his shoulder again.
"You don't have to tell me what happened. If it's too hard for you, you don't have to." He's seen enough, heard enough, to have an idea anyway. Dislike for lycans, the scars he saw, Peter's thought that it's his own fault. He doesn't need to see how it connects in Ben's death. He can see how it connects in Peter like fractures in glass.
"I don't know how this happened, and I won't tell you that wasn't your uncle. But Peter, your uncle loved you. You know that. You told me that. Whatever happened to him, this isn't him-- not what he thinks, not what he really feels. This world, it's amazing but it's dangerous and it is so easy to lose yourself in so many ways. You have to know this isn't what he would've wanted. Don't you dare let yourself believe a word that's been said."
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He pushes himself so slow, sliding his trembling and aching bones across that steel floor. He stops by Peter's side and reaches an arm over him.
"Come here, Chamaco. I got you," He says. He grips Peter's shoulder tight, then lifts that same hand to push back the boy's hair before settling down over his shoulder again.
"You don't have to tell me what happened. If it's too hard for you, you don't have to." He's seen enough, heard enough, to have an idea anyway. Dislike for lycans, the scars he saw, Peter's thought that it's his own fault. He doesn't need to see how it connects in Ben's death. He can see how it connects in Peter like fractures in glass.
"I don't know how this happened, and I won't tell you that wasn't your uncle. But Peter, your uncle loved you. You know that. You told me that. Whatever happened to him, this isn't him-- not what he thinks, not what he really feels. This world, it's amazing but it's dangerous and it is so easy to lose yourself in so many ways. You have to know this isn't what he would've wanted. Don't you dare let yourself believe a word that's been said."