Because Tina was right. For the role he played in her death, he does owe her. That's what this visitation is. Once he is done here, his debt will be repaid, and that grim link between them will be gone.
(He owes Cal, too, more than he can ever hope to repay, but this isn't for him. The dead can deal between themselves to their own satisfaction, but debt owed by the dead to the living can never be wiped away.)
He looks back to Cal, meeting his eyes, and doesn't look away again as he speaks.
"Your mother found that watch while they were cleaning the drugs out of your room," he says. "I had the locks at Tina's apartment changed, and when she came running to the house looking for an explanation, I told her that you were sweeping the garbage out of your life. She didn't believe me until I gave her the watch and told her you'd wanted it returned to her."
He smirks, just a little, because destroying any chance at Cal's forgiveness he might have had is worth the sheer visceral pleasure of landing this one last and vicious blow.
"That never even occurred to you as a possibility, did it? You're even more of a fool than your father ever was."
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Because Tina was right. For the role he played in her death, he does owe her. That's what this visitation is. Once he is done here, his debt will be repaid, and that grim link between them will be gone.
(He owes Cal, too, more than he can ever hope to repay, but this isn't for him. The dead can deal between themselves to their own satisfaction, but debt owed by the dead to the living can never be wiped away.)
He looks back to Cal, meeting his eyes, and doesn't look away again as he speaks.
"Your mother found that watch while they were cleaning the drugs out of your room," he says. "I had the locks at Tina's apartment changed, and when she came running to the house looking for an explanation, I told her that you were sweeping the garbage out of your life. She didn't believe me until I gave her the watch and told her you'd wanted it returned to her."
He smirks, just a little, because destroying any chance at Cal's forgiveness he might have had is worth the sheer visceral pleasure of landing this one last and vicious blow.
"That never even occurred to you as a possibility, did it? You're even more of a fool than your father ever was."
(He doesn't deserve forgiveness.)