The thing is when Robbie says it gets better... Rich believes him. He knows that Robbie still struggles, but he's also seen how far he's come, from being someone trapped into his own pain to now being someone that can feel joy again sometimes, that can lose himself in caring about people.

It makes him have hope. People can get better. The hurt doesn't get undone, no, but still, they can get better.

And he has a future again to get better in now. The possible death sentence isn't hanging over his head anymore.

Rich turns away from Robbie but it's to finally pull on the robe Robbie gave him as a gift.

"This is nice," he repeats. "Really."

It's warm and cozy. He can be warm and cozy again, there's a world of sensation he's allowed to have again that isn't just pain and deprivation.

His words become clearer and as he talks it's clear that he's getting a little more tethered down to reality again.

Tethered back down to Earth. That's what all this has taught him. He doesn't have to take it all alone anymore. Even Peter told him to rely on his friends, but then Peter was the one person in space that tried his best to make it so he never went into the fire alone.

"I'd like that," he says. "The penthouse room. Ain't never had a penthouse before. You know how it was: sometimes I was lucky to have somebody's else's couch."

He has a home to go back to. And a second family besides the one he was born into. (And the one he was born into isn't perfect but they love him, too).