[ derek can't deny the guilt, or the failure. it's always there, especially here in asgard, where he has erica's anger to deal with. justified as it is, he has no idea how to heal those wounds when she's gone back home and he can't change it. ]

I haven't exactly succeeded. Not with any of you.

[ least of all erica and boyd, but he'd failed isaac too, ultimately. ]

Fixing things back home isn't an option anymore... But I'm not entirely sure how to go about it here, either.

[ look at that! honesty. ]