The sadness is there, in his eyes, on his face, in the way his shoulders slump. He thinks he'd known about the lost possibility when he'd given Teddy the horse, but after a year of thinking about it, he'd let himself grieve and feel and understand.

Yes, he has deep feelings, and maybe he's worked himself up into some of them, but it doesn't make them less real.

Holding Faraday tight, embracing him as firmly as he can, he buries his face in his neck. "I'm not going to let you mess it up," he vows. "You don't have to love me, you just have to be here with me," he insists.