"Oh," Nate says, and then stops. He doesn't know what he's supposed to say from there. It surprises him that Sam had made an effort to have that kind of conversation at all. Sam was always the guy who didn't want to ever settle down, who always wanted to keep moving from one score to the next. He hadn't liked that Nate took up with Sully in the first place, that he'd tried to have any kind of attachments beyond Sam himself.

It takes him a minute to digest the information that Sam had wanted any kind of relationship with anyone, let alone with an ex-priest.

"Really?" he asks after a moment, raising an eyebrow. "How did you react?" He doesn't know whether he wants to hear the full details, but maybe it'll distract him from what's happening in his own head right now. That's probably unfair, making Marcus relive something he probably doesn't want to think about in order to protect Nate's own state of mind, but he never said he wasn't selfish.