Thank you so much! Michael is...really like a wolf child here, which is one of my very favoritest tropes ever. (I'm a huge freak for Cameron and Derek over on SCC, too.) He's forgotten how to even want to relate to other people as he drew into his little self-loathing shell, but it's getting pulled out of him again.

Not that this is going to be a HEALING POWER OF SEX fic, because no. Michael has to man up and work for his redemption on its own terms, but I think that passive and self-loathing behavior is its own kind of addiction, and the success rate for beating it goes up staggeringly with a support system.