It isn't that Jacob hadn't been at all helpful, but in vulnerable states, one clings most to what they find familiar. After a rocky, uncomfortable start, Nathan and Tony truly are brothers in all but blood.

"Your welcome has never been in question." At the moment, it does not occur to him to worry about what he's saying. The image of what he's just relived is the thing to run from, not Tony. "Just . . . another moment."

He will let them speak for a moment, while he finishes pulling himself together. How he is going to scrub the horrible image of this memory from his mind, he does not know. But he can at least make himself functional.