Somehow, hearing Meredith validate his idiotic little wants and insecurities makes them somewhat easier to bear, and Sean finds himself relaxing again. It doesn't make any of it better by any stretch, but it's also nothing new. Besides, it isn't as if there's anywhere they could run that could magically make them immune to life; everyone leaves eventually and there's an infinite number of ways out there for it to happen. She's got the bruises to prove it. He's got Maeve.

"Someday," he says with a small nod, since it beats giving voice to the rest of it. "Someday it will be. Sorry 'bout all that."