A second chance or Hell, rate from your own experience. [A little dryly spoken, but it was how he viewed the place; could even be both at the same time. Needed to go back, return to his own mission, but hell.

So much more was possible here, even if loss had a whole new level to it.]

Other than my best friend? [Why yes, he counted Jack amongst those losses.] No big trip back home. No home at all for that matter, nothing to return to. Feeling of safety. List could go on.

[He'd made his choices, going to take another drink and eyeing Jack over that bottle at that little memory-]

Got you back. Remember the blizzard?