"I love them. I love you, too, but we're not talking about that." Jack busies himself with straightening an ornament on the tree that he bumped earlier so he doesn't actually have to look at Carter.

"This is where I want to be. For them and for me too because you know. I get to be with...well, you know what I mean."

He turns a little and looks at her. "I get to be with you, if I'm here, so while it's not the only thing that keeps me here by a longshot, it's part of it."