This was comfort, this was only comfort at it's most common denominator. His fingers took the bolder route and squeezed those fingers as if to let him know that he was here whenever the other man needed to listen. But-- he was already thinking of ways to save him, as if he had finally found a crusade, something to fight for.

"Everyone can be saved."

And coming from those lips, did not not seem like such a wonderful dream?

Riley pulled back his hand then but not before leaving the memory of their touch in their wake. "You have saved your brother, I think that it is about time someone came in on your side."