[ In the absence of a face-scrubbing, Nate opts to rub the back of his neck instead, reminding himself what he'd said to her once — not even all that long ago, really, but with everything that had happened then and all of the wild and crazy things happening now ... it kinda feels like another lifetime ago. But he can start again, he can explain it better, he can —
He can try not to panic. This is Elena. One of less than a handful of people who had been there with and for him through the best and worst points of his adult life.
Christ, he really screwed it up, didn't he? ]
Where do I even start? [ Back at the motel, right? It feels like the most logical place to start from, when the alternative is to start from the very beginning — and he isn't even sure how to broach that yet. Him and Sam and their lives together, when it'd really been the two of them against the rest of the world. ] That guy you didn't ... actually get to meet? His name's Sam. Sam Drake. [ He exhales. ] And for fifteen years, I thought he was dead. I thought he'd died in a Panamanian prison.
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[ In the absence of a face-scrubbing, Nate opts to rub the back of his neck instead, reminding himself what he'd said to her once — not even all that long ago, really, but with everything that had happened then and all of the wild and crazy things happening now ... it kinda feels like another lifetime ago. But he can start again, he can explain it better, he can —
He can try not to panic. This is Elena. One of less than a handful of people who had been there with and for him through the best and worst points of his adult life.
Christ, he really screwed it up, didn't he? ]
Where do I even start? [ Back at the motel, right? It feels like the most logical place to start from, when the alternative is to start from the very beginning — and he isn't even sure how to broach that yet. Him and Sam and their lives together, when it'd really been the two of them against the rest of the world. ] That guy you didn't ... actually get to meet? His name's Sam. Sam Drake. [ He exhales. ] And for fifteen years, I thought he was dead. I thought he'd died in a Panamanian prison.