I was a child who should have listened. All the warning signs were being yelled at me and I thought my ego was more important.

[Leo sighs, thumbing along Peter's arm with his gaze down. Focused on the folds of the sheets Peter's laying on.]

It took the world being destroyed and my brother dead for me to learn how to listen. It shouldn't've. I almost lost you today too. [He's... scared. Not something he'll say but it comes through loud and clear, some part of him now years later still holding that child he was deep down in himself. Some piece of himself he rolls over in his mind when it's dark and everyone is asleep around him, that he can look at from every angle and examine with a fine toothed comb to find the cracks and imperfections since no one else ever will. Celebrated hero and leader, but only his family knew the truth. He was an idiot.]