Fics like Why didn’t they go sooner?

Having his feelings validated was … pretty fucking great, actually. Dr. Copeland said it might be time for him to let go of one of his burdens at the dinner with everyone. That if he felt himself falling into the peacekeeper, like he always did, making himself the target and taking the verbal abuse that they knew his parents were capable of, to switch gears and actually absorb what’s said and respond similarly. She told him it was ok to be an asshole once in a while, which made him laugh. He could forgive all he wanted, but he didn’t have to forget. And that didn’t mean he was holding onto negative shit. It just meant he valued his own mental health over the feelings of people who don’t know him or constantly push him to forgive whether he’s wrong or not. People who never put his wellbeing as a priority, people who never cared about his wellbeing period. He doesn’t have to forgive them for them. He can do it for him. Or Buck has known about Daniel since he got a copy of his records from the hospital after they found he had been allergic to the hardware in his leg. He didn't want to see his parents again, but he deserved to be free from the guilt he still carried for never being enough for them.

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