That in itself was even weirder, but Brendan didn't think he needed to say that much. If Tommy had been here for a while, as was apparently the case, then he'd probably figured all of that out for himself. He decided, too, that it was probably useless to tell Tommy to watch his mouth around the kids. There were worse things he could have said, and chances were, if they hadn't heard them already, they would soon.

Smoothing a hand over Rosie's hair, he sighed, exhausted and unable to hide it, as much from the fight as anything else. He'd taken it pretty good out there, and that, he nearly did say, except there was one thing left that he didn't know, that he was sure Tommy would be able to answer. "So if this all works..." He gestured vaguely in front of himself. "Like you say it does, with people showing up outta nowhere and spending months here when they've just seen each other, do you remember everything?"