Chase glanced up at Gwen curiously. "I don't know, and...rushing to have a kid? Yeah," he said, eyes wide and almost stricken. He ran his hands through his hair slowly. "I guess it just boils down to how much marriage means for each of you. How important it is to have that. Maybe for you two it's nothing, maybe for Peter, it means the world."

"And," he offered. "I think that he might have known, just maybe, subliminally, what his gift meant."