[The last thing he wants him to do is shut down. He's become someone else in the last two years, someone with all the familiar echoes of the boy he helped to raise but with new elements that he hasn't quite put into place yet. But he knows from experience, when Keith shuts him out, whatever he's protecting himself from never quite heals right.]
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Keith. Please. I want to understand.
[The last thing he wants him to do is shut down. He's become someone else in the last two years, someone with all the familiar echoes of the boy he helped to raise but with new elements that he hasn't quite put into place yet. But he knows from experience, when Keith shuts him out, whatever he's protecting himself from never quite heals right.]