"Because..." Bryn started but decided to take a different route. This showed with a soft little sigh. "John is my friend, whether he would call me his, is not for me to say. He has been through a lot. And takes the blame onto his shoulders. If he does open up to you, please do not play with him. Don't hurt him. He doesn't deserve that." Thor didn't either, but that was the hand that was dealt.
"I'm not saying he is fragile. If you did hurt him he would bare it and survive it, because that is what he does, but it would change him. It would make it that much harder for him to open up to anyone again." It came out more as a plea, than the threat that she had intended. But damned it all she liked the little witch.