Gabe is too rough and Kris trips on boundaries and both of them keep consistently fucking it up. Terrible brothers, or arguably fitting ones because oh how they suck at it. But it works - and this time, it wasn't Gabe doing the fucking up.

When the hands jerk off, there's a moment of a flatline in his thoughts, that Gabe still sees as a split second of the blank expression. Don't freeze up. It's always a conscious effort not to default back into the non-stop streams of paralyzed apologies, but. But. He doesn't want you to be scared, always made a point of saying that, don't freeze up don't freeze up-

"I thought it was a destruction of public property charge, not assault, but wouldn't that technically qualify as assault and battery, since assault only implies the desire to cause battery, whereas battery means that you did physical harm to the person, and both qualify as a misdemeanor so it's not fair it left that harsh a mark on your record, that level of lawbreaking is written off all the time and you were a minor for it which means your charge should've been lowered to some degree and you wouldn't beat up a terminal patient anyway you're too nice for that only going after those that deserve it to some level i mean i do but not bad enough to worsen your record why doesn't juvenile court look into motives like the others do leaving the decision on one biased party makes no sense from a legal standpoint-"

This is arguably worse.