You're our friend. You are our friend. You are our friend.
Colin just. Stares.
It's not that he's never been called anything nice. He's been a nice young lad according to the little old ladies he used to help with mechanical and electronic issues around their houses. He's been a good kid, according to his parents. He has, begrudgingly, been told that he did fine at something a couple of times by others.
But a friend? Someone's friend?
That's not something he has heard ever. It would imply that he would have any peers who actually wanted him around - actively wanted him around for his own good.
And that's what she makes it sounds like.
And.
What.
"I didn't- I didn't think you - your friend? But-" where to even take this- "are you sure?"
He can't think of any one thing that he could have done to deserve something like that. Sure, he's tried to do his very best up until that fateful return to the Sept. Tried to be the best him that he could be, tried to provide the most value that he could to the pack and the Sept as a whole, however well that has gone.
But friend, that's such a ...badge of honour, of being someone better than what he is, that's not something he had even been aiming for. All he ever hoped was that they would continue to let him be just another pack member, that their acceptance of his presence in the pack would remain as positive as it was.
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Colin just. Stares.
It's not that he's never been called anything nice. He's been a nice young lad according to the little old ladies he used to help with mechanical and electronic issues around their houses. He's been a good kid, according to his parents. He has, begrudgingly, been told that he did fine at something a couple of times by others.
But a friend? Someone's friend?
That's not something he has heard ever. It would imply that he would have any peers who actually wanted him around - actively wanted him around for his own good.
And that's what she makes it sounds like.
And.
What.
"I didn't- I didn't think you - your friend? But-" where to even take this- "are you sure?"
He can't think of any one thing that he could have done to deserve something like that. Sure, he's tried to do his very best up until that fateful return to the Sept. Tried to be the best him that he could be, tried to provide the most value that he could to the pack and the Sept as a whole, however well that has gone.
But friend, that's such a ...badge of honour, of being someone better than what he is, that's not something he had even been aiming for. All he ever hoped was that they would continue to let him be just another pack member, that their acceptance of his presence in the pack would remain as positive as it was.
Friend. That's such a big thing.