He didn't know how to be more than this. Didn't know how to be enough to be loved. He was always too much or too little and he never understood why.

David's words are soothing, at least, and that touch in his hair is good.

"Thank you," he says again. He means it. Almost doesn't believe this is happening. Is terrified what the fall out of it is going to be. But he's trying so hard to believe David and to just be here with him. That has to count for something, doesn't it? The trying?

That's all he has to give.