"You know I can help," Cole responds, a bit insistently. Desmond helps him, Desmond helps keep him whole and calm in a way that's almost like what Rhys did. Cole wants to help in return.

"I just need to know." He can only get fractions of things right now with hie empathy. Desmond's angry at himself, Desmond's scared someone will find him, there's probably other things as well but Cole just can't access them and it's far too annoying.