Tiger doesn't look at J as he answers, instead he just keeps staring at that empty room, feeling hollowed out inside. He reaches out his hand to nothing, and then drops it.

"I can't get away from it," he says, and hope is something that feels like it's been taken away from him entirely. "They're...They're gonna hurt me. When they find out I'm...that I remember..."

He wraps his arms around himself.

"I told them that I felt like that and they...they did something scary to me, and...I still can't..." He clutches his hands to his head, shuddering. "I really messed up. I keep messing up..."