[They'll get him home? He hopes so. He's found some people in this world who are important to him, wouldn't mind the ability to come visit now and again, but it will never really be home, after all.

At Donnie's suggestion, he lifts his head, too. Donnie seems... surprisingly cavalier about potentially breaking the time stream, but then he is right that it's probably already broken in ways they can never know anyway.

And going back... even if it's just for a short time, even if they don't remember later, just to see them again...

Leo can't help but fidget anxiously. It's not that he doesn't want to try, but...]

It wouldn't... let me, before. Wouldn't let me go home.

[At first, it didn't work at all, but that was apparently normal. Later, he may have been able to use the machine, but it wouldn't have put him where he wanted to be. It would have stuck him back in the Prison Dimension, and that's...]

What if you try to take me through with you, and me being there messes it all up?

[Even worse than Leo going back to the Prison Dimension would be taking Donnie there.]