"It's..." He sighed. "Roger has always been selfish. Just didn't think he was going to be this selfish. Losing a good friend like this, it's..." Well. He was sure it spoke for itself, if nothing else, Roger taking a long swig of his ale. "Suppose it was stupid of me to expect anything different. He was mooning over Cho for over a decade. Never confessed to her. Then he fucking figures out about Nora, actually works up the guts to confess, and it turns out he took too long to come around to it. Like it took her being taken for him to realize he was completely in love with her."
Another sigh followed, Alec shrugging softly. "It is what it is. As far as friends go, this makes him a shit one. As far as patients go, this makes him a bloody idiot. Sure, memory modification fixes everything in the shot term. But in the long term? He's more or less fucked himself over. I expect migraines, nose bleeds... and they're only going to get worse. I offered him the option of doing it all properly, psychologically. Sure, it would take guts and time and effort, but he'd grow from the experience and move past it seamlessly, not... whatever self-destructive shit this is."