"We can always hope, as long as we don't hold our breaths waiting." Returning to their dimension - and a life of their own - was a dream she no longer held. Maybe if the circumstances were right, but she knew those dreams were just fantasies that would never come true. She'd never get to introduce Eliot to her family or friends, she'd never get to meet his family. It was just the way things were and something to live with. The best she could hope for was to build their own life quietly somewhere no one knew about them.