I told him it was the only way to save you, a-and if he didn't, then he'd have to keep living without you there. And... he didn't want to be alone, so he said okay.

[ he probably doesn't need to keep saying any of this, but... nobody else was there to hear what actually happened, and as far as he knows, bradley and jason never even knew about everything that would have happened in the future. he feels guilty enough already when he has the full context for everything, so he has to look awful to someone who doesn't. he doesn't want them to look at him the same way that cat did. ]

When we showed up there— we'd come from the future to stop him. B-because if you did die, he would have lost control and become a monster himself and— and set that whole world on a really bad path. I... I didn't tell him that part, because I didn't want him to have to feel guilty about it.