[He's never told you this, but he ascribes a lot of nice, comforting things to you stroking his hair like that. It's a simple gesture of comfort, yes, but it's always helped bring him back to himself in the past. Take, for example, that horrific time in '63 when he had thought that he had lost another father on his watch. There is, as well, those nights when he had woken up from recovering another shattered, bloody fragment of his past for the Key that they later used to bring him back to the Cycle.
Full stop. Maybe he shouldn't be thinking about stuff like that. Not when he might end up crying again.]
Okay.
[He hopes that it isn't too obvious how he's trying to hide his face from you for a bit. You're going to worry even more if he just loses it again.]
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Full stop. Maybe he shouldn't be thinking about stuff like that. Not when he might end up crying again.]
Okay.
[He hopes that it isn't too obvious how he's trying to hide his face from you for a bit. You're going to worry even more if he just loses it again.]