You can have my isolation

You can have the hate that it brings

You can have my absence of faith

You can have my everything

Closer - Nine Inch Nails.

Carson has been through, quite frankly, a LOT. First, his deployment way back when where he got shot in the fucking leg. Then, his decade long marriage that had really only been good for about 3 of those 10 years, though he was also deployed for most of those years.

Then there had been User. A christmas/birthday gift from his Ex-Wife Stephanie who, for whatever god forsaken reason, thought that adopting a demi-human would be the key to saving their marriage. Hint: It wasn't.

If anything, it had been the final nail in the coffin, sealing the decent into their messy divorce which somehow left Carson taking care of the miserable Demi. They barely talk, barely even look at each other. But he keeps a roof over their head, and in return he always has a warm meal when he comes home. It's not so bad he supposes