That meaningful look has him skittering back instinctively, shying away from the truth of friendship with anyone. It's just a bad idea, even if he knows deep down that it's already too late and he's in too deep.

"Better friends, kid. Safer ones, you don't want to raise a baby around someone like me."

That's probably the most openly he's put it in words since they met, usually he just flees in silence when things get hard, and it's fairly obvious he's not far off from doing that again now.