He can't help that his fingers pause. They pause because those words hit him harder than anything else. But this time, it's his job. And he won't fail Bruce. He will not fail Bruce.

He wants to ask. He wants to ask if he's told his Clark, if his Diana has tried Amazonian technology. If he's bothered to contact Ray Palmer to see if he can get in there and start repairing things. He wants to ask all of these things, but he ultimately knows it's a fool's errand, and one that will only put the blame for what he's suffered on Bruce. And he won't do that. He won't.

"I'm sorry."

He's sorry for everything he's done since they met here and he's sorry for the Clark in his world who wasn't psychic enough to know and he's sorry that the world is shit sometimes and it's one of the few times, the very few times, he'll ever admit that. The world is sometimes shit and it makes him so very angry because there is nothing fair about that fact expressing itself on the heart and mind of Bruce Wayne.

He lets himself lower to his knees and gets in close to Bruce and presses a kiss to his temple.

"I am so, so sorry Bruce."