"Really? You can say that, after everything that just happened with Khan and Marcus?" he asked him, turning to look at him.

He had asked the same of Bones, and gotten his answer, though he didn't really believe it. He didn't understand how all of them could still trust him, believe in him, when he had made such a grave blunder, nearly killed them all. Hell, he'd died, and he'd hurt so many because of that. He'd made Spock feel the same pain he had when Pike passed...

"I'm not good at loving people."