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[He doesn’t say a word as she goes through her tirade. It isn’t until she’s fallen quiet that he wraps his arms around her, hugging her back. Dave is just a kid, he’s not sure how to go about comforting anyone from the one thing that was a constant of his life for a day and for two years.

Death could happen at any minute and it would be pointless and terrible. She’d said people tried to kill her before.] It was automatic and I’m not sorry about it.

[Because he wasn’t letting any of his friends get hurt if he could help it. He was fine with being battered and damaged. He’d been that way before and it didn’t really bother him.] We’re both fine. Come on, look at me a sec.