"I know... I do, and I get it– at least... academically. Obviously, I don't... know what it's like for you, but I get why you're scared." Maybe more because of what he was given upon arrival here than a true, natural understanding, but is that really such a bad thing?

He hesitates on it, because this is... all such a fucking mess, but in the end he does say, "I know I'm, like, the last person on the planet, in any universe, that you even want around, but... you don't have to deal with this shit alone."