Date: 2007-06-29 05:15 pm (UTC)
Scott is mildly surprised to feel Sloane's touch, but it's not a bad surprise. All the relationships in his life seem so complicated, now, this show of pure sympathy from a near stranger moves him.

He doesn't deserve it, of course. He hadn't been thinking, until Sloane's reaction, of what Sloane had said about his own family.

"I'm glad -- " he says, turning back to Sloane. "That is to say, you're lucky if that's been your experience. Well, not -- not lucky, obviously. I'm sorry for your loss, but -- I grew up in an orphanage. I hardly had a relationship with my father. I have a son and a daughter myself and --" To oversimplify things, grossly. "-- I've abandoned him, at least twice -- no, three time. As for my daughter -- when I first knew who she was, I rejected her." He shakes his head. "Obviously, there were other things -- other people -- I was more attached to."

Responding at last to Sloane's final overture, he says, "If you want to go, don't let me keep you."
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