If the first reaction was double edges, the following one is only more so. He doesn't want to ask, for reason which are proven and founded and have nothing to do with the man sitting in front of him. Well. At least. Yet.

And conversely he does. Want to hear that he's wrong.
Regardless of just how well he might not believe it regardless.

Still ten years have passed for him and Edward wasn't there, wasn't a part of it. Wasn't born yet. Wasn't even in his past more than a handful of days. Hates that he's actually entertaining and encouraging the descent of these thoughts.




It doesn't lead to much more than his pressing faintly together.