[ It's easy to hear how desperate Rebecca sounds at this point, and at her words, he finds himself without a way to communicate to her that everything would be alright. How could he, when he wasn't sure of that? When their future, in the face of the Administration's dark designs, still seemed so bleak, even with the best of their efforts put forward? ]

...If you start to feel you can't, promise me you'll come to me. I'll--

[ ...... ]

--we have to manage it somehow. And I already decided that no matter what happens, I'll be by your side--so I'll be your strength. If you feel you don't have anymore left, I don't mind being someone you can continue to lean on whenever you need it.