He feels proud of that look just a tiny bit. It makes him feel like he's accomplished something. And hell, her critique of the boys on the lacrosse team is fair enough, really the only decent guy on there is Danny and he's good but he's not drawing any attention to one of the only truly visible out and proud guys at Beacon High. That would not be buddies at all (and wow he needs to stop mainlining Due South before bed, really he does).

So he gets that, the aggression and the enhanced everything which explains a lot about Scotty and his behavior recently. Gives him some idea about how to handle him. Maybe even teach him a little bit more control.

"Your fire? I mean the Hale House Fire, yeah, I remember it." It was a couple of years after his mom died and one of the things that really kind of helped his dad be his dad again. "So you're telling me that hunters did that? To your family?"

And that makes a little more suspicious of why she's back in town.