The statement needles into his heart, makes him shift just a little uncomfortably at hearing it. Eddie knows he'll never truly understand. While he has his own complicated relationship with his father, it will never come close to what Billy has experienced. There is still the hope that he can say or do the right thing that will make the years of hurt fade away, but Eddie knows better. Knows that all he can do is try to make things better from this day and each day forward.

"We'll try and do something about that," He murmurs as he presses a kiss to Billy's temple, pulls him as close as he's able. It could take a life time to undo, and Eddie thinks he would be okay with that. From there, Eddie lets his lips trace down Billy's jaw, over his collarbone, down over his chest with each kiss pressed through the fabric of his shirt.

"You can... you should--" The attempts at finding something to say die on his lips, because who is he to say what Billy can or should feel right now? Eddie laughs, almost from embarrassment at his failed attempt to concoct a solution. "I love you," Is what he ultimately opts for, and for as much as he means it, it still seems to fall short. "We'll figure out everything else."