Eivind had said all the wrong things. He knew that right after Blue started speaking again, and the look that crossed his face when he spat words back at him. He wanted to be angry, especially when he made it clear he thought<i>all</i>werewolves were bad for him, but he couldn't bring himself to. He'd been insensitive to Blue when he'd brought Alden back up, not understanding why Blue had done it, and the sort of toll it had taken on his psyche. Eivind's heart was pounding, watching Blue deal with whatever he had to internally.<br/><br/>“No.. I didn't mean to say that you enjoyed any of it,” Eivind backtracked. He had his reasons, he was sure. Most likely Eivind just didn't understand. It was his own jealousy he was compounding on the situation. It had very little to do with Blue, and Eivind was coming to realize he wasn't being fair. At least with shooting Alden and the other wolves back at him. Still, Eivind didn't know what to do to fix any of it. He felt guilt for not being able to do anything sooner, and yet he was still managing to make it worse, and distress Blue further about it. Why couldn't he get anything right?<br/><br/>When Eivind spun Blue around he stumbled into him, unable to get his long limbs to move fast enough to adjust. He was forced to lean into him for support, Eivind still holding onto his wrist.<br/><br/>“I honestly wasn't giving it much thought going in to the situation,” Eivind admitted. “We don't usually clean up other people's messes.” Once again, Eivind regretted his choice of words once they'd left his lips. He wasn't lying. He just wasn't saying the right things.<br/><br/>“<i>Fuck..</i>” he sighed. Blue was physically exhausted, and Eivind was mentally exhausted.<br/><br/>“Maybe we shouldn't have been so quick to jump to conclusions?” he decided, finally, hoping that would appease Blue somewhat. Even if the young man hadn't turned out to be his mate, would it have been right? Eivind couldn't say for sure what he would have done faced with the same situation and Blue as just another stranger to him. He would have liked to think he still would have defended him, simply from a moral standpoint. Lofgren needed to be punished for his actions, not the victim. Of course, him and Sieger would never see eye to eye on the subject. If he had taken his place as alpha, Eivind's opinion likely would have counted for more.<br/><br/>“Going in, I didn't think about my view and opinion on the subject. I was pissed to be bothered. I didn't want to go. With it laid out in front of me, I couldn't ignore it,” he tried to explain just a little bit better, which of course for Eivind was a struggle. He had always done a piss poor job of expressing himself. “It wasn't right, and neither is the easy action we'd decided to take. I don't think this was the time or place to be lazy.”<br/><br/>Blue slumped a little bit more and Eivind readjusted his hold to draw his arm around him, rather than letting him dangle by his wrist. His heart was still pounding, a mix between anger, frustration, and just being around his mate when he was clearly distressed. Eivind didn't want to keep making him more upset, but he was sure he wasn't going to change thirtysomething years of ingrained behavior.<br/><br/>“I'm going to offer you another pill if you promise not to slap it out of my hands again. You don't have to take it if you don't want to, but I know you feel like shit right now. You'd be better off taking it than continuing to be stubborn. I'm going to look at your wounds again, and try to make sense of all the shit Alaric sent.” Some things were still non-negotiable. Blue did need tending, and he absolutely needed sleep.<br/><br/>“Stop fighting me at every turn,” Eivind suggested. He moved them back over to the couch and plopped down on it with Blue, taking him with him. He'd restrain him if he had to, at least until he passed out, pain killers or not. He reached back for the pill bottle sitting on the coffee table beside them, where he'd set the water down. He brought his arms around Blue to open the bottle again, fidgeting to get another dose out.