Oh, she says. 'Oh.' All she's got is 'oh' and the more she talks, the more this feels like Felicity all over again. Unavailable. They're always unavailable or he's just unwanted. The latter tends to be true more often than it isn't.

'Oh.' What the hell is he supposed to say to that?

What am I even fucking doing here? I look ridiculous, I feel like an idiot, I didn't actually want to come…

'Oh.' She said 'oh.' Worse, she followed it not with "I care about you, too." Not with "you're my friend, too." Katniss followed oh — as opposed to I'm sorry. — with the fact that he shouldn't care about her. Derek's wondering why he does, at the moment. Why he cares about anyone anymore, because he only ever ends up hurting for it, but he can't make it stop. He can't just shut it off. Sometimes, Derek wishes he could. His life would be a hell of a lot easier most days if he could just turn it off.

"Little late for that," he says quietly.