"Promise." Johnny nodded. One thing he didn't do was go back on a promise. He hoped that even though his future self was apparently a liar, he wasn't the sort to go break his word on top of it.
"I know." He said, looking down as she had done. There was no way around it. That was clear now. They were all stuck together, at the whim of aliens. "Something is going to have to be said, I think. It goes back to them finding out on their own and how much worse it might be if that's the way it goes."
Johnny was still stuck on how to tell them, and what to tell them. Rob was a different story, in his mind. He might be protective of Mary, but he'd seemed like a rational sort.
Though all of them might want to see him dead, just based on the fact of whatever he'd become. Since he couldn't explain it, he knew that it wouldn't go over well with anybody else.
"I think I would like to put off that part of the discussion until later. I know I kind of brought it up, but ignore that part."