Then don't make it a 'when.' Time isn't really the constant here it would be anywhere else.
[ Between losing it to zipping out-and-back, exports and alternate dimensions, the loops and the rewinds and the jumps forward — and even excluding all that, it's hard to make commitments like that. It's hard to plan a future like that, when chaos and upheaval are more common than peace. Hell, she and Jaime don't even have a date set yet, and that's something they're looking forward to. ]
... It's harder, because nothing's really permanent. The lives we lived before we got here, we can't change those — but nothing about our future is cast in stone. There's no promise that any one person will ever come back, but, there's no real way of saying they won't, either. I mean... I was gone, for a long time. So were you. That friend of yours, that just came back. People I was sure I could never see again, but...
... [ Even in her own head, she doesn't know how to finish that thought. There are too many people she means. Too many people that, because of her choices, her mistakes, no longer fit in her life the way they're supposed to. Too many people she's failed, and no way to make amends. ]
... ... If your brother came back next week, what would you want to tell him?
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[ Between losing it to zipping out-and-back, exports and alternate dimensions, the loops and the rewinds and the jumps forward — and even excluding all that, it's hard to make commitments like that. It's hard to plan a future like that, when chaos and upheaval are more common than peace. Hell, she and Jaime don't even have a date set yet, and that's something they're looking forward to. ]
... It's harder, because nothing's really permanent. The lives we lived before we got here, we can't change those — but nothing about our future is cast in stone. There's no promise that any one person will ever come back, but, there's no real way of saying they won't, either. I mean... I was gone, for a long time. So were you. That friend of yours, that just came back. People I was sure I could never see again, but...
... [ Even in her own head, she doesn't know how to finish that thought. There are too many people she means. Too many people that, because of her choices, her mistakes, no longer fit in her life the way they're supposed to. Too many people she's failed, and no way to make amends. ]
... ... If your brother came back next week, what would you want to tell him?