So, she considers final-version!Vee to be a good friend? That has some rather unfortunate implications on what Fitzpatrick's real-life friends are/were like, in my opinion.

He was still the ultimate bad boy...but now I knew that hadn't always been the case.
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At one point long ago, he'd been upstanding, and something had caused him to change his ways.
You know, Fitzpatrick, I'd be more inclined to believe that if we had some evidence that Patch used to be a nice guy at some point. Because there is none. At all. What-so-freaking-ever.