[ "What a bastard" sounds like something Declan would say. Probably has said, in Matthew's presence.
Don't cry in front of Dad, he tells himself, but he doesn't cry easily anymore so it doesn't take an entirely Herculean effort. ]
You did, [ he answers, seeing no way to be untruthful about it. ] You got in over your head, [ comes the careful explanation, the same one he was given and has been implied to him a number of times when Declan grew especially frustrated (often) or when Ronan told him everything on the Fourth of July. ]
With the dreaming.
[ His head lifts, he looks at his father. A man who seemed so immortal until he wasn't, who died and left them with no home and a broken family. Matthew could ask him so many question. Why did he make them leave the Barns? Why wasn't he more careful?
But even though he knows more about his father's flaws now than he ever did when the man was alive, Matthew still loves him too much to place blame. ]
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Don't cry in front of Dad, he tells himself, but he doesn't cry easily anymore so it doesn't take an entirely Herculean effort. ]
You did, [ he answers, seeing no way to be untruthful about it. ] You got in over your head, [ comes the careful explanation, the same one he was given and has been implied to him a number of times when Declan grew especially frustrated (often) or when Ronan told him everything on the Fourth of July. ]
With the dreaming.
[ His head lifts, he looks at his father. A man who seemed so immortal until he wasn't, who died and left them with no home and a broken family. Matthew could ask him so many question. Why did he make them leave the Barns? Why wasn't he more careful?
But even though he knows more about his father's flaws now than he ever did when the man was alive, Matthew still loves him too much to place blame. ]
Ronan figured out how to wake Mom up.