"I wasn't looking for pity, and I'm not." He just wanted to know that James knew his family wasn't the only one that lost people. Chris had guessed James didn't think like that, but he had needed to know for sure.
"Yeah. Need to stop being afraid of what if I guess, cause I know, and you can laugh, won't be offended, cause I know how I look. But if he or anyone came after Da and Mum or Uncle Colin...Don't know what I'd do, and I'd probably die trying to stop em but I'd take someone with me." He'd never thought it before but he knew it was true, down to his soul. No one was going to hurt his Da or Mum and him not do all he could to stop them.
"James? Thanks for putting up with me, yeah? And listening, and talking. Two times now you've made me see sense. Do you always make sense like that?"