"Meeting you wasn't all a lie. That was..." An accident? Fate? "That was just us. The universe, or something." He keeps his eyes cast downward. "It wasn't...I didn't do this for myself or because I wanted to. That intel your parents had on me? Wasn't fake. The government just got to it before they did and had a tighter hold."

How does he explain? "I...I wanted us to be friends."