She had seen so much of his darkness already, his pains, his horrors, now she should be able to see over the walls he's built around himself, before the door was cracked, open for her... but it was locked now, sealed for her own good.

When she spoke he looked to her with a shocked look on his face... like he expected it to be dramatic, some yelling, to be called a dumbass at least. But, the jury was still out on that last bit. "Yeah... No one would take me seriously or disrupt my work if they saw no future with me, and I have no future to offer."

After a second he scrunched his face some, any sorrow of underlying anger vanishing as he looked so confused. "Excuse you, I am bad, just not for the reasons I said." Suddenly he felt like a teenager on display... where did this go wrong?