"I know." With a kind of bone deep certainty he only ever had for Delta in the past- for Carolina and North before everything went sideways. Now? Now they've got each other, they've got this weird little family and it's...it's worth fighting for.

It's worth the disdain and disappointment and the rotted bloat of uncomfortable memories.

He can brave the ghosts as long as he can come back home to this. This warmth, this stoic certainty, this ridiculous nerd of a human being that, for some reason, loves him. "Love you."

Like it bears repeating, but since The Incident he's tried to say it more often.