"It'll kill you to stay, Jimmy." He doesn't want to be the cause of that. The pain won't be near as bad for his slow decline, not physically. But watching Jim's fire sputter out, watching him struggle to come to terms with the inevitable?

This is a shade of visceral empathy he never expected to share with his father.

"...god damnit Jim." He murmurs, slumping into the hold, forehead pressed to Jim's abdomen, arms settling around his waist. "I can take care of myself. I got my family just up the road when things get more difficult. Don't hurt yourself by watching me."

He'll have...handled himself before the situation gets too far, though. Can't code a hypo without being able to feel his fingers, after all.