Ah, dammit, he's going to start crying again. He fights it, stubbornly and with a smile, because it's just such an unexpected gift, really. She doesn't even know him, but she went and said something like that.
It's reassuring. And it's a small seed planted- one that might eventually grow to make him believe it wholeheartedly. That it doesn't matter.]
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Ah, dammit, he's going to start crying again. He fights it, stubbornly and with a smile, because it's just such an unexpected gift, really. She doesn't even know him, but she went and said something like that.
It's reassuring. And it's a small seed planted- one that might eventually grow to make him believe it wholeheartedly. That it doesn't matter.]
...Thanks. Hearing that is- ...thank you. Really.