"Listen to me," Carson said with a sigh. "You don't need to apologize for anything. I'd be more concerned if you weren't falling apart and being a drunken idiot right now. I mean yes, you can't dwell on it forever, but you've got every right to deal with it like this for a while."
Probably not the healthiest advice, but considering he hadn't exactly done the best after Scorpius had gotten sent back, he wasn't about to try and dictate the younger man's responses.
Plus, this was infinitely better than just bottling it up.