Wt???? Almost one year, and no one tried to reach him after being abandoned a boyfriend, cheated and badly treated by his brother and with a friend that didn't speak with him at the time? And Jase has the guts to suggest that Tracy was a bad guy for leaving after all of them abandoning him? Tracy doesn't even seem to know if Callen and Jase are together and raising Cory. Which by the way might be a really nice kid, but calling Tracy uncle when he almost doesn't know him? And what's with Jase leaving young Benny with Tracy without explaining the situation? It doesn't matter if Alex is in a new relationship or if my crazy teory that after the incident he had to leave suddently his house to adopt a baby from a dying relative. None of them have cell phones? I can almost imagine Tracy to go directly to Alex and push him in the face before asking everyone to leave, he is the only relative after all. He is to good of a guy so probably wouldn't do that but they all deserve it, even Callen if he wasn't in the hospital already. And Callen is the worst of them, lying and badly treating his brother after saying he was the most important person in his live some chapters ago. How could he abandon his brother for almost one year without going after him and apologise? I understand that your sexual orientation is normally your own business, but its stops to be when your only family is your younger gay brother, that is just lying by omission. And I guess that someone don't want to chose between family and friends, but sometimes you cannot get what you want, and if having to chose between his brother and his friend who hurt and abandon Tracy, being that they even take care of Benny, I guess we know where Callen is. Sorry for my rambling, but this chapter really got me going. Practical question: was Tracy just "playing dead" for one year or did he had his brother sent him his tools and started his life elsewhere? I almost wish he build a life elsewhere,it doesn't matter how many apologies and excuses they have after so long, I really cannot understand how their relation can be as before.