[It won't be fine, despite how much Wesker needs it to be; somewhere in there he knows that, that there's no way things will be fine and he doesn't think he can handle it, not really, but he doesn't have a choice because if he doesn't handle it then an entire world will remain destroyed because of him and while he may have been able to handle that notion before, back when he was creating these memories in the first place, the fact remains that now...

Now he just needs everything to be fine, and it's not going to be, and he can feel himself bristling tightly because Jaeger is doing that thing he does when he lies, and Wesker realizes that he's shaking his head without really being certain of what he's reacting to, and that tightness is seizing his chest again and the silence has gone on for too long but he doesn't know what to say to fix that- ]

There's a...reason that I don't want to discuss things like this, I...

[And there's a tightness to his words, too, even if he makes himself stop there; he knows that's unfair, and when he shakes his head again it's more an attempt to clear it than anything else.]

We don't have any proof of anything, anyway. We just have someone's word - it's all hypothetical.