He Can't Fully Blame Ward, But A Good Portion Of It Is On Him And The Way He Is Now. The Fact That He's

He can't fully blame Ward, but a good portion of it is on him and the way he is now. The fact that he's got all of these issues and he opted to self medication. Ward didn't want to believe his son was weak and needed help. So why get him what he needed? He could pick himself up by his bootstraps and fix it himself. That's how his generation thinks, right?

Either way, there's a lot of things he wishes he could take back and how he treated Sarah is one of those things he wishes he could take back first. Everything else seems to come secondary - even though she's now friends with the pogues. Those apologies would have to wait sometime later.

He takes a breath, and as Sarah asks if he wants to get dinner with her he lets his mouth curl into a soft smile - a ghost of a thing - but it's there.

❝ I'd like that.❞

sarah can't always blame rafe for his actions. sure he was old enough and of sound mind most times but his actions weren't always driven by his own thoughts or feelings. ward had a way of twisting and manipulating things. a con if you will. like the lengths that ward would go to try to get sarah back. ward was the one who made their sibling bond into a competition for rafe. no matter how horrible sarah had been as a daughter, ward had always had this light. not that she wanted that view or anything from her father.

so as rafe cries, sarah holds onto him. she had people to rely on when she was at her breaking point and she realizes that rafe hasn't had the same luxury. she knows that topper and kelce are emotionally stunted. rose was never going to be a mother, she had never been to begin with. all they had were each other when it came to family and maybe it's their turn to fix things that are broken between them. they will never get any answers from ward and rose probably was too deep in the bottle to give them anything that made sense.

"hey, rafe..." she starts softly after a moment. "you want to grab some dinner or something? we can have a chinese take out night like we use to when we were kids." when they were a family."

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If she wants him all to herself - he'll accept it. He doesn't need the boys approval. Hell, even if Topper were to talk shit about this situation Rafe would have a few things to say about it. He's happy with his arms around her like this.

❝ I love you too.❞ he replies as he nuzzles against her hand.

The boys can shut up, they don't know Rafe like she does. They don't really know him at all. Maybe if they gave him a chance. . . But then again, she wanted him all to herself. . . "I do." She smiles and kisses him again. "And you're my guy, who I love." A gentle hand rests upon his cheek as she looks up at him. "I love you."

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