Eddie takes the hint to turn away, both to offer Harrington privacy to change, but also...to speak. He pushes his own wet jeans off with a frown as he listens, and finds himself nodding even though Steve obviously can't see. He tugs new pants on as he tries to work out what he can possibly say when they both know the outcome. If he's honest, as much as he's assumed there was no hope of making it much longer than the moment he was abducted, some stupid part of him apparently still wanted to hold onto that sliver of none existent hope that he made it out of there somehow. That maybe he was just being dramatic, and it only felt like he was dying. The certainty of it now isn't surprising, but it does...ache in a way he's surprised by.

"...I'm sorry," he echoes finally, turning and like wise not quite able to meet Steve's eye. "Pretty sure that chapter was closed even before I went and decided to be an idiot, but...I didn't want to hurt any of you guys..."