[Stiles feels it then -- the guilt. The shift in Dean's mood hurts in an almost physical way. He chews his thumbnail as he gives the other man time to absorb the bomb he's just dropped on him. He wishes Dean hadn't asked. Kind of wishes he'd never brought it up at all about his other self.

When Dean's image shows back up on screen, Stiles looks at him with a troubled expression. What he wants is to apologize.]

I don't know, honestly. Everything about the two of you is...pretty different. [A lot happened for the Dean who's currently on the Barge, that didn't happen for the Dean he's talking to. And those differences matter a lot.] I'm trying not to push him. Trying to be there without hovering or whatever.