"Yeah, I was this... skinny fucked up junkie who'd been seeing things, hearing things." He laughs, without any humor in it. "Got really good at burning bridges on my way to rock bottom. But he saw all that and still found something to love."

Who knows why. It had been a misplaced love, in the end. Jeff ended up hurting him the way he'd hurt everyone else.

"Oh..." He tries to follow all the crazy threads, apocalypses and more time travel and... Jeff looks at Klaus, brows knitted and eyes wide. "You saw him again? Before the... Oh. Fuck, dude..." He exhales. "I can't say I wouldn't have tried to save him, too..."