<<'Don't be so fucking stupid, Egbert. I didn't say anything about you growing up alone. You still have three people behind obnoxiously colored texts.'>>

[And he knows that it isn't the same as having someone who raised you. But it's stupid to say you're growing up alone when you're going to be with three other people stuck in the same fucked up session as you.]

<<'But I'm not letting you fucking lie about something that's going to have to happen. Because it is going to happen, and nothing we say or do is going to change what's going to fucking happen.>> [Because Dave knows that them dying is part of the Alpha timeline. Not that he'll admit to John unless he keeps pushing this crazy bullshit that John can actually do something about it.]