Horatio's initial thought is: Who didn't think he was real? For a brief moment he thinks Gabe is talking about one of Felfri's Fog followers - try saying that three times fast, he amends, wryly - and then he realizes exactly what's being explained to him.
"Fuck."
The curse comes out as a pained sigh. After having seen Gabe grieve Monty's disappearance the way he had, talking him out of putting himself through death after death until nothing hurt anymore ... Horatio can only imagine how much all of this must have stung.
"I don't blame you for not trusting seeing him, not after the shit that's been pulled on us in the past. And if you were in your gear... Christ, that must've been like taking the partition out of a betta fish tank." When Gabe pinches the wound closed and explains the regeneration, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other on which is making Horatio wince in pain.
"So you just let him beat you up?" Something about that really makes him upset, and not in the sad sort of way. He can feel his jaw clenching again already. He wants to ask if some twisted part of Gabe thought he deserved it because of all the shit his old man beat into his head ... but that wasn't the sort of thing you said when someone, dumb as they were in some ways, was in the act of poking a needle through your open wound.
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Date: 2022-11-14 02:00 am (UTC)"Fuck."
The curse comes out as a pained sigh. After having seen Gabe grieve Monty's disappearance the way he had, talking him out of putting himself through death after death until nothing hurt anymore ... Horatio can only imagine how much all of this must have stung.
"I don't blame you for not trusting seeing him, not after the shit that's been pulled on us in the past. And if you were in your gear... Christ, that must've been like taking the partition out of a betta fish tank." When Gabe pinches the wound closed and explains the regeneration, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other on which is making Horatio wince in pain.
"So you just let him beat you up?" Something about that really makes him upset, and not in the sad sort of way. He can feel his jaw clenching again already. He wants to ask if some twisted part of Gabe thought he deserved it because of all the shit his old man beat into his head ... but that wasn't the sort of thing you said when someone, dumb as they were in some ways, was in the act of poking a needle through your open wound.