Comfort him
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You take off your glasses and slump down on the desk with him. You both sit there, watching the portal crackle before you. A quiet, overwhelming moment in the eye of the storm.
"Listen, Higgs." You say, not taking your eyes off it. "I'm going to need someone on this side. Someone to clean this whole mess up, to explain it to the press, to make the patent. Someone... someone who could re-open this thing, if I ever wanted to... come back."
He looks at you, shaking.
"We both know that's not going to happen, Theo," he says. "This is a one way trip."
"But just in case!" You say intently, turning to him. "If there's even the smallest glimmer of hope..."
"Yeah. Yeah. I'll keep the lines open for you." He mutters grimly. "Tell you what, I'll rework the observation algorithm. Tweak it. Maybe if I took out the fifth line..."
He trails off to turn and looks at you like you're a cancer patient.
"I'll wait for you, Theo." He says sadly. "But don't ask me to come along."
You slap him on the back and stand up. "That's more than I could ask for, Dave."
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