It's really only obvious, Elvis thinks, that neither of them could have foreseen this kind of meeting coming. He sure as hell wasn't expecting Gwen to disappear, which he knows now was his biggest mistake. Even for her, he should never have let his guard down enough to think that anything else would happen, that it would somehow be inevitable in this case. People always leave somehow. That's just a fact of his life, as true now as it always has been. He has to wonder why it couldn't have been Peter instead, but he doesn't say so, much as he might not try to hide it. "Well," he says, "here we are anyway."