Oh god, he wanted to believe them, he wanted to so much - they'd been through so much together, before coming here and since then. But the fact remained, they hadn't told him. It was that almost more than the fact that they were dating which was hurting him, thanks to all the revelations about his very nature that had been kept from him for so long. All he wanted was for people to be honest with him - and to Ven, even though they hadn't lied about dating, this still wasn't being honest.

"If I'm so important to you, why couldn't you have told me earlier?" He looked on the verge of tears - he wasn't, but it kind of looked like it, especially with his eyes that were too damn big and the way his head kept drooping. "You guys just left me in the dark about it all, and now you're just... springing it on me like this and I don't know how to take it."