Well. That's his answer. He'd known it - known it for a good long while, actually - but he'd needed to hear York say it. He'd needed confirmation, because timeline shenanigans were bad enough without running on assumptions instead of facts.

And now he knows for sure.

God damn it.

"It's been a few years since that for me," Wash says, after the silence settles too long to be comfortable anymore (not that it ever really was). "Get some coffee and we'll talk."