"Eh, it ain't a big deal." When it came down to it, a lot of the things he'd made a problem weren't. Maybe things would have been different if he'd seen that sooner, though he'd sealed his fate long before he made the decision to protect Ken with his life. He'd been killing himself slowly for two years instead of letting his friends help him, out of a misguided need to protect them from himself.

Damn, he really had been an idiot. "And there ain't no changin' it, so don't worry about it."