(...I don't think he'd be half as ticked off about being here.)
[ Still angry, probably. But not hauling around the same load of guilt about how rocky his relationship with his father had been. Maybe his father still would've disappeared into space, maybe Sam still would've been scouring the galaxy to find him, but he wouldn't feel that same sense of gut panic, he thinks, about the prospect of being here and never going back.
Because after he'd thought they were fixing things, that they were okay again, and then it had been a clone the entire time, now there's a nagging voice at the back of his mind saying: you're never going to get to fix things. ]
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[ Still angry, probably. But not hauling around the same load of guilt about how rocky his relationship with his father had been. Maybe his father still would've disappeared into space, maybe Sam still would've been scouring the galaxy to find him, but he wouldn't feel that same sense of gut panic, he thinks, about the prospect of being here and never going back.
Because after he'd thought they were fixing things, that they were okay again, and then it had been a clone the entire time, now there's a nagging voice at the back of his mind saying: you're never going to get to fix things. ]