"If it wasn't real then we both had one hell of a hallucination and should check what was in the water." He managed a soft laugh before taking another sip of his water. He wanted there to be a explanation for it, something other than the terrorists the news kept going on about were real, but that didn't seem as likely.
"If I'd stayed back home ... what if it happend to you still and I never found out? and something bad happened to you and you just, stopped coming online." Hartley shook his head. "This is better than that."