“Three,” Neal mumbles after a moment’s silence. “I remember them all. The third time I drowned, and that… that was the worst. That’s when she got so upset she walked out, and then Bucky got angry. And I realized neither one of them asked what happened. They just… got angry that it did, that I would put myself at risk without them.”

His voice keeps going quieter. “They weren’t totally wrong. I didn’t tell them that Negan and I were going to explore that cave… We got stuck in there, water coming in too fast to get out.”