It all seems so long ago. They were different people then, at least when it came to their relationship with each other. When they arrived he was still hard at work pretending to himself this relationship was never going to be anything more than just sex and some good times. That he had to hide his feelings from Jack because surely they must be one sided. That this was never going to be anything real. All of that has changed and a great deal of it happened here and even though he doesn't know what the future holds leaving this place that became their home feels like the end of a chapter. Like there was be something final about closing that door.
There's so much he wants to say but in the end he just smiles, turning his gaze away from their surroundings to Jack's face. "These last eight months have been the best of my life. I'm glad we both got our second chance."
((I've been rereading some of our old threads in some end of game nostalgia. We did a dang good job with these boys here.))