His eyebrows only lifted when she said it wasn't that bad. She looked like hell. And for a man who'd seen her in way too many weird situations where she looked like hell, that was saying something. He'd always thought she was beautiful, even covered in slime or dinosaur drool or...whatever the anomaly threw at them. But he could acknowledge that she wasn't looking her best. Especially when the illness also included a tank top and prison bottoms.
He let his words sink in for her. And he held his breath as he watched her face. Despite knowing, despite understanding where she was from and how their relationship had changed, he still found himself surprised when she seemed disappointed. Shed been the one to propose, of course she felt for him. But still. It felt strange, somehow.
His ring was on her finger. The ring he'd been given by his mother as a teenager, a reminder to not settle for anything less than real love. A reminder that love could exist and people weren't always horrible to each other. Had he really found that with Abby Maitland? Oh, he'd wanted it. Of course he had. But after so long he'd gone from a crush to just friends to never wanting to be parted from her and then he was and... It had been so long. Knowing that the girl he'd loved for so long had finally come to love him, too... Did he still feel the same? After everything, it was so hard to say. How could he even explain all of that? Kimberly and Jillian and the strange things the Seal had caused him to do and say.
"No, Abby. We're not. Not for me." It pained him to even say it, knowing he was likely to hurt her. But he'd been through so much, he couldn't just pick up where they'd left off...for her. He could where he'd left off, maybe. Start over, try again. If that was what they both wanted. But did he?
"The last thing I remember before I left was walking away from Professor Cutter's body." Which still caused him to choke up a bit and he looked away from her. "Next thing I knew I was being met by Allana Solo. That's Han and Leia Solo's granddaughter, for reference."
Which was her first clue to how he knew where she was from. "This world is special. Different. Nothing I've ever seen but I have read about things like this. The people here, many of them are what we'd think of as fiction. My best friend is Superboy, I went to a sci-fi convention with half the gang from Star Wars, and there's an honest to god Disney princess."
He took a deep breath and stopped walking, turning to face her with a serious expression. "That includes us, Abby. Everything we've done and seen...well, a lot of the things we've done since meeting Nick Cutter? It's on the telly for all to see."