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[deadboywalking]

i think a lot of parents do that
they look at you but they see someone else, kinda.
right?

[Or something else. Something they hate.]

you're welcome.
i'm not upset about it.
it wasn't scary.


i mean, it sort of was but
not as scary as it could be.

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[ That's... almost disconcertingly wise for someone Will's age to say, and yet Peter's not completely surprised. Will's said a lot of unsettlingly wise things for someone his age, over the months that he's known him. This clearly isn't about his mom, so maybe..... his dad, that he'd brought up earlier? ]

Was that how your dad was?
It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, though

[ The honesty.... makes him pause. It gets to something in his chest, uncomfortable at the thought of his freak-out being even "sort of" scary. But he's also... weirdly touched? That Will admitted that? ]

I get pretty weird sometimes, don't I

[ This is the first time Peter's ever really addressed that to Will like this. He's known the younger boy's seen him through his rough times; he's come to pieces and cried and panicked at him more than once. Had to be talked down and comforted by him. It's easy to see Will as this sort of rock, but he is just a kid. And Peter freaking out about something so simple as a misfired text... well he can see how that would be.. distressing. ]

Sorry
I know I get scared really easily
Like.... too easily
I want to try not to do that so much

Especially at other people. It's not fair to them. Or you

[deadboywalking]

yeah.

[Even being able to admit that little bit is...kind of a big deal for Will. His dad's always been this sort of shameful secret, this thing he couldn't fix and couldn't control and couldn't get out of his head, so even saying it is...good.

It feels bad, but it feels good, somehow. To have it out there.]

i don't think you're weird
everyone gets scared sometimes
it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you.