I know. Sometimes- sometimes you do everything right, and the world just decides to kick you in the teeth for it anyway.

[ There's nothing more he can do, is there? Other than just be here on a sofa too soft for his bones with wine that isn't going to get him drunk. ]

Then we're here anyway. We're here, and you can be part of- whatever the fuck it is that we are, if you want to be. We just figure out how to make it work.