"I'm sorry," he said quietly, falling silent after that. Again he just sat there for a long moment, holding onto Jack, not knowing what to say. There would be other people, in the future, but that wouldn't make losing the ones Jack had now hurt any less. But Scotty refused to believe that not letting people was the answer. Not letting people close would only make eternity that much lonelier. But he doubted that was what Jack would want to hear right now, and Scotty wasn't sure he could find a way to say it without making it sound like little more than a hollow reassurance. And he didn't want to think about the fact that someday, he wouldn't be there. That someday, Jack was going to lose him too and there was nothing he could do about it.