He gets excited when his phone buzzes, and then something like guilt and sympathy settle in. He keeps forgetting that he's the experienced one. He's not used to that. But Marcus has made his inexperience clear, and Midnighter just keeps up and ignoring it.

He remembers when he didn't know how to do this, the mistakes he made, the feeling of being in over his head. And now he's thrown Marcus in without thinking. Idiot, idiot.

Well, he can fix this. Probably. He can try. When things go to shit, he used to just lie his way out of it. Now, he tries to tell the truth, lay things as flat and bare as he can.

shit sorry

things were shitty last time
thought maybe not mentioning it would make it better
guess not

we can do this or not
send pics or not
you can call me
just miss you