It's so familiar, and just unfamiliar enough. Gaeta closes his eyes on a fresh well of tears.

I wish Louis were here.

It's good that he isn't. He knows. As long as Louis doesn't show up on Marrow Isle, it means there's a chance he's still alive. Besides, it's not as if Louis would ever hold him like this again if he were around.

But if he's grieving all his losses and wishing for impossible things tonight, well. What's one more.

It doesn't take very long. Fractured to pieces, yet held together just as Angel promised, Gaeta drifts into a wrung-out, dreamless sleep.