"I never wanted to be gone from your side, not for a minute, Kate. When I'm without you, I feel like I'm missin' a part of my soul, like a piece of my heart's not beatin'. I never wanted to leave you behind, and I don't."

He looks at her, shifting his hand around in her grasp so that he can lightly run his fingers against her wrist.

"And what makes me think we could be happy?" The barest hint of a smile and that familiar spark - he loves her with everything he has, even if it has been a decade that fire is still burning hot as it ever was. Maybe even hotter, now that it's been allowed to smolder for so long. "I got faith in us. It's hard t'explain in words, but I just know, Kate, that as long as we're together and doin' what we're meant t'be doin'...that things will work out and that we'll make our way together. Whatever that path is, it don't matter to me...I just want t'be ridin' it with you."