But before all of this... if not for everyone being here, if everyone I cared about were to go home, I... I would have rather gone "home" as well than live without you. And them.

[He looks up, adding quickly as if to not let her dwell on the implications of that statement.] But that's not the case anymore. And... that's a good thing, isn't it? I just want to live. I really don't... I don't want to die...

[Those last few words get swallowed up in a small sob as he weakly lifts his arms up to cling to Nephry. He's so scared -- terrified -- and all this time has been keeping that fear quietly to himself, letting it build and grow until now, when it's practically overflowing.]