"You knocked?" He hadn't heard anyone but he'd been spending most of his time patrolling or training. It'd been easier to think while doing something familiar that had been part of his life since he was a child. "I wish I'd known you were checking on me. You wouldn't have been bothering us."

At least not after that first night and even then Alec would have ignored his own problems to help Sebastian. His own worries weren't as important as making sure his friend didn't think the worst because of that nightmare.

"In the dream I was happy but afterward, I panicked a little. Not because of you." He had to add that even as he sorted out his own thoughts. "Because of what the demon said about my father. I know that Robert didn't love my mother or the woman he cheated with but it still made me wonder. I don't regret it." Pausing he bowed his head for a moment, some of the confidence he'd earned after Edom fading. "But I don't want to hurt you or Magnus so I doubted myself."