[Just cuddles him and lays on his back with Ace on top like Ace is a giant cat and gently strokes his hair.]
[It's only understandable. All of it. He shouldn't have been banned from existence. It wasn't Ace's birth that was wrong, it was the world. And as frustrating as it is for Smoker to have to rethink and analyze and CHANGE HIS MIND and how he deals with life and always more and more complicated... it's still better.]
[His Ace.]
[Smoker gently kisses the top of Ace's head and lets him keep crying, still petting.]
[Also the VERY MOST MESSED UP part of Smoker kind of feels like this is only RIGHT. Ace turned Smoker's world on its head, Smoker was messing up Ace's. For once. Payback. Equals.]
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[It's only understandable. All of it. He shouldn't have been banned from existence. It wasn't Ace's birth that was wrong, it was the world. And as frustrating as it is for Smoker to have to rethink and analyze and CHANGE HIS MIND and how he deals with life and always more and more complicated... it's still better.]
[His Ace.]
[Smoker gently kisses the top of Ace's head and lets him keep crying, still petting.]
[Also the VERY MOST MESSED UP part of Smoker kind of feels like this is only RIGHT. Ace turned Smoker's world on its head, Smoker was messing up Ace's. For once. Payback. Equals.]
[All the pets.]