Jacob certainly was an idiot, but one who had survived so long with his sanity intact. That was his main priority in how to continue on in the world, making sure he could continue functioning no matter what other setbacks that induced. He generally ran from his problems and distracted himself from difficulties to make sure he couldn't linger and be pulled under the weight. Now there was something he had no possible hope of running from and it terrified him. Thus, he acted without proper foresight, a mouse cornered in its own game.

"Maybe I just want you to leave me be," he said, staring down at the table now. He was scared and angry and out of his mind for a number of different reasons. That Abel dared presume he could treat him like a child after everything he'd been through was laughable, but no one was laughing. "Do you realize how damn unfair it is to live long enough to see the rise and fall of empires, watch countless wars and see millions of people die from old age and never know I had family out there somewhere waiting for me? What gives you the fucking right to just barge in and think we'll just... fit together?! You left me! You kept your promise but you left me, anyway!"