AU Dan and Abra
"I told you to leave. The Knot had already killed Billy and... they'd killed enough people, and Rose wanted you dead. There was no way I was letting her get near you," he explained, only hesitating when he almost said about Abra's dad being killed by the Crow. He had no problem with telling her anything else about what happened on his side of things, but telling someone that a version of their dad died? That wasn't needed.
He smiled a little after that, humorless and somewhat sad. "They'd missed me when I was growing up. I guess the Overlook saved me from the Knot. Weird, huh? If I hadn't stopped using my Shine when I did, they'd have found me and I'd have just been another missing kid on the side of a milk carton or the back of one of those flyers. But Rose was distracted enough by me because of that, so you managed to get away from her. And then she was gone."