Blackfeather Woods Redemption

Things would never be as good as they could. Potema could be home, and Meldresi alive. Hell, Bane could never have abandoned all of them and things would be so much better, but they simply weren't. That was one of those things that Damien learned away from home. No one taught him that, there hadn't been an old wise sensei passing on his millennial knowledge to Damien, he simply realized it. He had to do the most with what he had.

Burke's smile was unexpected, as it was the reaction it brought out of himself. "Me too," said Damien with a heavy heart, and then pressed his face on Burke's chest on an embrace like he'd done countless times with his own mother and said "Thank you, dad," with such sincerity and love that suddenly everything felt far less stressful. There was a guy Damien could always trust.