He is prone to leaving portions of the story out, true. But he'd explain if asked, that he had to be a dick when he didn't want to be a dick. But he never forced Peter to pretend to like him. Never expected him to do more than listen to him for his own good. The love was, as he'd just suggested, always one-sided and he'd known it. He wasn't strong. He was a fool who made the wrong choices and his punishment was at the expense of real happiness.
He tips in to look at the images, of the boy, and then of Seto and his husband. There's a whole lotta love in those two images alone, and despite Seto's previous assertions the fact that he carries these around his neck says something to the contrary.
"Yeah, all ya can do is do your best. He actually sounds a lot like Quill that way. Always findin' new ways to get into trouble. He was hard to keep up with."
He's quiet for a moment. "I do think if the Ministry doesn't help us, we can. We can find ways to transfer our minds. Vexen knows how to make new bodies for people. There are people who time-travelled. There are other pocket universes and nexuses with towns and cities and ships that could find our points of origin. We can fix this. You'll see him again."
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He tips in to look at the images, of the boy, and then of Seto and his husband. There's a whole lotta love in those two images alone, and despite Seto's previous assertions the fact that he carries these around his neck says something to the contrary.
"Yeah, all ya can do is do your best. He actually sounds a lot like Quill that way. Always findin' new ways to get into trouble. He was hard to keep up with."
He's quiet for a moment. "I do think if the Ministry doesn't help us, we can. We can find ways to transfer our minds. Vexen knows how to make new bodies for people. There are people who time-travelled. There are other pocket universes and nexuses with towns and cities and ships that could find our points of origin. We can fix this. You'll see him again."