No! No way. It's not fair, I don't think it's fair to anybody. Not with the things that happen, with no warning. No way. I just want him to come home.

[Which. Is not the right thing to say. Probably. But it's out now, and - whatever, he does mean it. He wants things to be the way they were, or as close as they can be.]

[She doesn't.]

[Alex shrugs, shoulders tight.]

That's on him, though. [His choice. Not Alex's or Charles's or Raven's. Erik's.]