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Tim. falters. His voice is the first to go, and he swallows thickly in an attempt to make it all... make sense. "I-- that's the... plan. But I'm... comfortable. With him."

Words are. hard. The shame rolls through him, and Tim can't look anywhere but at the floor. "I know how to fight back and I don't think I'll have to. And that's. That'll be good. For me."