[Sociliazation has been hard since waking up in the med bay. Harder than usual. So texting is the best he can do for now.]
Being with you instead of them will be an immense improvement on its own.
[There was an urge to admit he was glad to see Brainy had fought to keep the child. In a way, Brainiac Six's- or Merl's situation hit a little too close to home. For some reason, he'd just assumed the child would be hidden back away somewhere else now that he'd been 'dealt with', that the government would have control over him the way they had obviously wanted to. That was what generally happened to kids like Merl, wasn't it? Seeing Querl not only speaking on his behalf to keep that from happening but genuinely showing an interest in caring for him despite how difficult it might be, it struck a cord. Enough of one to get him kind of talking again.
But he couldn't think of a way to phrase what he wanted to say on the subject that wasn't either too personal, too self-involved or just too easily misconstrued, so after several erased attempts, he let it go.]
I don't know how much help books would actually be, [Judging by what others had said in the thread, not very.] but just doing for him what you would have wanted to have done for you, would likely be a good start.
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Being with you instead of them will be an immense improvement on its own.
[There was an urge to admit he was glad to see Brainy had fought to keep the child. In a way, Brainiac Six's- or Merl's situation hit a little too close to home. For some reason, he'd just assumed the child would be hidden back away somewhere else now that he'd been 'dealt with', that the government would have control over him the way they had obviously wanted to. That was what generally happened to kids like Merl, wasn't it? Seeing Querl not only speaking on his behalf to keep that from happening but genuinely showing an interest in caring for him despite how difficult it might be, it struck a cord. Enough of one to get him kind of talking again.
But he couldn't think of a way to phrase what he wanted to say on the subject that wasn't either too personal, too self-involved or just too easily misconstrued, so after several erased attempts, he let it go.]
I don't know how much help books would actually be, [Judging by what others had said in the thread, not very.] but just doing for him what you would have wanted to have done for you, would likely be a good start.