"He doesn't deserve it," Gene says, not listening, "he'd just started to get settled in, his mechanic shop was starting, and me? What do I contribute? It should have been me."

He hangs his head. "How do we know it'll still..." How do we know it'll still be like it was? He can't even finish saying it out loud. Tony could have forgotten. They could all forget, when the Dreaming pushes them back, as it eventually will. And then...they won't love him. He'll be alone. And all these years here will have been for naught.