Olivia hugged him back and just ran her fingers through his hair soothingly. If there was any chance of defusing the volcano before it became a full blown Mount St. Helens of water and anguish, she was going to at least try. At least the pipes hadn't blown themselves out again... Yet. "I don't know, Alex. I wish I had some sort of answer that would make things even the littlest better, but I don't know what was going on in his head. If he had been sick, or something else was going on that we don't know anything about? The Bailey men I've found, are a lot more complicated than they look on the surface." Which he was now the oldest one of the "Bailey men", but there was no point in rubbing any more salt into that wound. Especially when they didn't know where Ben even was these days.
"It'll be okay. As okay as things ever get at least."