"You don't have to get over anything, Dal. You don't have to do a damn thing. You may never get over this and that's okay. What matters is that you live. You live and you grow."

It wouldn't be easy but the important thing he needed Dal to know was that it was okay to not be okay. To let others help him. While that man hadn't been someone he could trust that wasn't true of everyone in the world. It wasn't true of Gabriel. And all he could do was just make sure that he showed him that through actions.