[ Just because he couldn't hang up on her doesn't mean he won't continue to refuse to say more, at least more of anything remotely helpful. It's not anything that she needs to know just yet. There's a certain order to the chaos of Simon's choices, a plan to save the world and a plan to keep her safe. That's been his intention and it doesn't change because they find themselves here.

But when she steps closer he does take an unconscious step back. He's not afraid of her that proximity isn't a thing he is used to, at least when it's not doctors or nurses and those were never the best experiences. There's a hum of discomfort in his mind that skitters through his nervous system. ]

Alex, you can't believe that you're not important. That you haven't been important from the very beginning. None of this happened by happenstance.