he just needs a hug and for an adult to tell him to get over it basically. lets see, so he'd have been like 22-26ish around that time, which doesn't really track as far as his record goes. his unsavory business was more or less in his late teens, although maybe london caught the tail end of his rebellious stage? or the tail end of him playing robin hood to right his wrongs? they could've run into each other a lot doing weird shit and found some serendipitous way to work it into some kind of friendship?