"It's more that I didn't really have one. Just my dad, and he didn't have any idea what to do with me. There was a couple of times, when he was fixing up a boat and let me help, that I thought I might've...felt it. That's it."

He draws his knees up and leans slightly more fully against Malcolm. "Hannibal did call me family, though, yes. And it was manipulative. But it was also true." He takes a deep breath in and lets it out in a sigh. "I think family are the people you are connected deeply to, through fate or circumstance. You don't choose your family. You do choose to be Pack. And you are both, to me."