[Varian would very much prefer to keep staring a hole into his untouched eggs, but eventually, Kurt's movement does make him raise his head to look at the man. He lets out a soft, shaky sigh.]

Yeah, I really don't want to lie to them and I'd rather keep hurting them down to a bare minimum. I've hurt enough people I love in the past to last me a lifetime, I don't want to do that if I can help it. Not to them.

[Because he hurt BOTH of them plenty in July when this awful, awful town dragged him right back to the person he used to be. The sort who definitely didn't care about who he hurt.]

I know that. I'm not gonna push anything on them or... or anything like that. I don't really know a whole lot about what I'm doing but I know that much.