"No, you asshole!" Roman would have slapped him around the head if he hadn't been holding his daughter. "I want to prevent Nadia hurting people, which is why I don't wanna feel threatened like this!" he made clear. "Jesus, Peter, I thought you knew me better than that!" He'd done all he could to quell his Upir nature, to the point where he'd been willing to give up his powers, but fate had intervened on that path. "She's my kid, I don't want her turning psycho on anyone that doesn't deserve it," he said with a disgusted shake of his head.
"See!" right there, Peter was talking about meeting other people again. "You just can't help it, huh? Look," Roman said with a sigh, "if you make friends, cool, man. Seriously, good luck with that," cause god knows they'd both spent enough time alone in their lives. Okay, Destiny and Shelley were the exceptions, but they'd dealt with their shit alone. "If you want to dip your wick, that's fine too," only less so, Roman thought but didn't say as he tried to bring his rant under control and find a point. "I just..." what? Didn't want Peter to be happy? Didn't want Peter happy without him? That was uncomfortably close to the truth. "...just don't want you doing it around Nadia!" It was a weak finish, but he had to try and find a point somewhere, even if it sucked balls. "Alright, I get it," Roman held his hands up in surrender, "D and Shelley are back home dancing in buttercups and singing in rainbows," he said with a shake of his head, "whatever you need to believe, man." He was more practical. This world was all they had and they'd better damn well get used to it.
Roman had the decency to look abashed at Peter's reprimand, "so? It's not like our world hasn't come crumbling down, like, a billion times already," he said taking back the roach and taking a hit, "and that was before New York!" He gave a shrug of his shoulders, "I wanna believe that," he said handing back the joint, "I really do, Peter, but every time I try to imagine what that looks like I remember the shit hitting the fan and Nadia being taken." He looked at Peter, "how do you take it all in your stride like you do? Fuck, I would give it all up now for that super power, man!"