He should have expected the questions; hell, he had plenty of them on his first day, too. It's just that he doesn't have any answers, no more than any of the poor people who had found him did. He doesn't know that anyone here has any answers, but it's worse telling her that when she's already wounded and confused enough.
At least he'd been standing on his own two feet when they told him everything he knew was gone.
"I can't explain that, either," he says, a little apologetically. "One minute I was in Korea, the next..." he shrugs with one shoulder as best he can with her arms around him, and gestures to the city around them. One minute Hell, the next, Darrow. It's not worse by any means and he never thought he'd be sad to see the back of the war, but he does wish he got a chance to say goodbye to the people he slogged through it with.
He wonders if Beej has woken up in the Swamp and noticed him missing. He wonders what they'll think, whether they'll class him AWOL or dead. He wonders how long it will take before Charles stops crowing and actually starts worrying, how long it will be before BJ demands a search party. If he thinks on that too long he'll go nuts, so he stamps down on it.
"Wherever you were before, this city brings you here, and no one seems to be able to answer why. Once we get you fixed up there'll be some more information at the station waiting for you, but it's not much." It won't tell her what she wants to know, in any case, but at least it'll give her a place to sleep. Donna had been right in saying that's almost the most important part. "You just happen to be today's lucky winner, I guess."
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At least he'd been standing on his own two feet when they told him everything he knew was gone.
"I can't explain that, either," he says, a little apologetically. "One minute I was in Korea, the next..." he shrugs with one shoulder as best he can with her arms around him, and gestures to the city around them. One minute Hell, the next, Darrow. It's not worse by any means and he never thought he'd be sad to see the back of the war, but he does wish he got a chance to say goodbye to the people he slogged through it with.
He wonders if Beej has woken up in the Swamp and noticed him missing. He wonders what they'll think, whether they'll class him AWOL or dead. He wonders how long it will take before Charles stops crowing and actually starts worrying, how long it will be before BJ demands a search party. If he thinks on that too long he'll go nuts, so he stamps down on it.
"Wherever you were before, this city brings you here, and no one seems to be able to answer why. Once we get you fixed up there'll be some more information at the station waiting for you, but it's not much." It won't tell her what she wants to know, in any case, but at least it'll give her a place to sleep. Donna had been right in saying that's almost the most important part. "You just happen to be today's lucky winner, I guess."