and she said that no matter how it turned out that she was gonna leave port charles. so...missed us. i missed us, too. yeah, you did? yeah. forgive me -- i can't help wondering, though, if, uh... if another lead on alex comes up, are you gonna be taking off again? i don't know what i would do if i had a chance to find alex, because i really do want to settle things once and for all so she won't just come blowing back into town and claim peter as her own. i understand, you know? you-- you've already committed to peter and accepted him as your son. you've been good to him. i mean, you've shown him there's a life after faison. she could undo all of that. mm. you know? i mean, if she comes and tells him that she is his mother, whether she has proof or whether it's empirically true... i just feel like she would ruin everything. mm. well, it's just a thought, you know, but... you know, maybe if you... you spend more time... with peter, you know, and you have more of an influence on him, it'll lessen alex's impact on him. so, maybe instead of chasing after her, you -- you want to