He won't hope, won't hold out on some fool's dream that one day she'll wake up and remember. Mick doesn't hope. He misses a life that wasn't his. "It's outside of time. Different worlds all coalesce in the time stream." Eddies and ripples, echoes of other lives.

That had to be it and somehow Mick took a harder hit when he was ready to sacrifice everything to destroy the Oculus.

"Probably gonna kick my ass for this but I remember.." and he's going to say it looking right at her, braced for whatever reaction comes next. "I remember us. You an' me."