[ Shaking his head, he tips it back to return that look with a softer one. ]

He has a fiance back home, we've agreed to be a thing on this moon, but we both know it won't last forever. Billy has already returned to his lover at my point in our time-line, so I ... I don't harbour any illusions about him staying with me forever, or a grand romance blooming.

I just want to be ... [ the best I can, ] here for him, for as long as we do have.