"What are you talking about?" He said back with a slightly raised tone. "Of course you have me. You're not alone, you idiot."

Quill was more upset that he had hurt Rocket than anything else, but his mouth was moving before his brain.

"My hope was you'd never have to deal with it until you came on it in the timeline," he said. "Or, you know, maybe never when Thor reverses the shit out of what happens. I had no idea ghosts were going to show up like a bad version of Scrooge. I'd have warned you before if I knew you'd be seeing that stuff."

He looked at his friend.

"You were happy here. I wanted you to stay happy. " He said. "At least someone deserved that and I wanted it to be you."

You dumb, stubborn idiot