[ it's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't. explaining it to someone outside of beacon hills who doesn't know the hale name and the tragedy tied to it is something he's torn about — he wants to remain anonymous within a town that doesn't look at him with pity and he wants to sometimes push her so far away by revealing he's hunted like a wolf by people who are difficult to even begin explaining. it's easier to depend on the former, given it requires little digging and truth-telling. ]
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[ it's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't. explaining it to someone outside of beacon hills who doesn't know the hale name and the tragedy tied to it is something he's torn about — he wants to remain anonymous within a town that doesn't look at him with pity and he wants to sometimes push her so far away by revealing he's hunted like a wolf by people who are difficult to even begin explaining. it's easier to depend on the former, given it requires little digging and truth-telling. ]
I'll see you in a week.