[That gets a hug because what else can he do? Well it's more of an arm around her shoulders than a full blown hug but it stays there, comfortingly. It's the sort of thing Gwen would have done, the kind of thing she had done for him more times than he can count.]
That's horrible. For what happened to her and for how it had to affect you both. How long was it between that and when he got back?