[Tate stops himself from digging into that deeper, but he's watching every little breath Derek makes, studying his responses and his actions with a somewhat quicker beating heart. Derek's someone he's starting to feel he has too much in common with, almost. Like the darkness had a grip of him too - but he managed to prosper, to do good things and become a better person. Tate got lost to it. Maybe this really is his second chance.
He should be a bit more concerned by the way Derek explains the age gap, so he focuses his attention there instead. He'd figured that Derek had known her, maybe, and been exploited. Somehow this seems worse, but proves his point. Derek harbors too much guilt for this when it was all on that bitch. He looks down at their hands and touches his to Derek's. Only thing he knows how to really do, to comfort someone.]
She's - That's predatory. It's bad, I'm sorry. You said, you said before? She was a hunter? Is that what they do? That's... awful. They're awful.
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[Tate stops himself from digging into that deeper, but he's watching every little breath Derek makes, studying his responses and his actions with a somewhat quicker beating heart. Derek's someone he's starting to feel he has too much in common with, almost. Like the darkness had a grip of him too - but he managed to prosper, to do good things and become a better person. Tate got lost to it. Maybe this really is his second chance.
He should be a bit more concerned by the way Derek explains the age gap, so he focuses his attention there instead. He'd figured that Derek had known her, maybe, and been exploited. Somehow this seems worse, but proves his point. Derek harbors too much guilt for this when it was all on that bitch. He looks down at their hands and touches his to Derek's. Only thing he knows how to really do, to comfort someone.]
She's - That's predatory. It's bad, I'm sorry. You said, you said before? She was a hunter? Is that what they do? That's... awful. They're awful.