[ Derek's quiet, listening as he tends to do, silent and far away. The more Kavinsky talks, the more he realizes that there's just so much about this kid he doesn't know. Whenever they talk like this, Derek gets some insight into his life back home that he didn't have before, and it paints a clearer, more stable picture of who he was before Duplicity. It's never anything good. ]

You don't have to be a bad guy, you know. You're not defined by the mistakes you've made, or - the shit you've been through. You're just... fucked up. That can be fixed.

[ Whether or not Kavinsky thinks so, Derek believes that everything has the innate potential to change and improve. He leans back on his hands, watches Kavinsky in silence for a few seconds longer, and maintains eye contact when he asks what he thinks he might need to ask. If Kavinsky thinks he's this unforgivable, unchanging monster, he's killing whatever chance he might have to grow, so. Derek's gotta help him work on that the way people helped him. ]

Did you kill anyone back home?