Yeah, Gerard wouldn't know anything about that. He still often woke up wondering how he lucked out to be there, with them. Kept waiting for it to all come crashing down. For Cal to get tired of him. For Niko to decide he was more trouble than he was worth and was better off gone. For a hundred other awful things to happen and to end up alone again as he so often was.

Dark moods, but they passed, now. It wasn't always gray.

"Oh - any cheat codes for helping him through that one?" if there was anyone to ask... "I just... feel like I'm always saying the wrong thing when I try to help."