John nodded. "Yeah, keeping busy is good. When Derek's power first came through, we thought he'd died. Throwing myself into training, some extra sparring one-on-one with Sam, was what helped me work through it. That was when I first really got it that the others considered me a friend, too. Troy and I...we'd had a huge argument not long before. But, he was still there for me, along with the others. They threw a wake and it made me talk about Derek, give myself permission to miss him openly. It helped more than I thought it would."
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