Because I Had To

  Jacob was so sick of feeling helpless as Addison cried. He wasn't sure how much more of it he could take. 

He wasn't sure how much more of any of this he could take, honestly. Having her sometimes feel like she was his girlfriend when she wasn't. 

Clinging to someone she threw away just because she was traumatized. He didn't blame her for it because what she went through was horrible but that didn't make the situation suck any less. 

After she cried on him on her dad's birthday, he was dying and ended up doing one of the last things he ever thought he would do. He specifically sought out Derek on his next day off because he happened to be off as well. 

He needed to know how he handled it for so many years. It had only been a couple of months and it was too much.