Something good, something bad

Rocket's best friend and the one being he knows he can always count on to be there even when he lashed out with tongue and tooth and claw. Thinking that he had lost the big lug during the fight against Ronan had made the smaller Guardian just how much Groot had meant to him even if that was some time ago. As such, he treats his best friend a bit better.

One of his closest friends despite their quarrels, Quill was the third person who truly treated him as an equal instead of an animal, a freak. Rocket had more or less started off as a loner but since falling in with those losers, it was like he has a somewhere to belong, people he believed need him as much as he needs them.

The first person allowed to pet him (following Groot's temporary 'death'), Drax only started to earn his trust following that moment due to the realization that if anyone knew how much this kind of loss hurt, it would be the other alien.