Alfred pursed his lips. He didn't know that he agreed with that assessment, but since he didn't know what had happened he wasn't sure he could present an alternative scenario. He would have just been bullshitting to try and make her feel better, and she would have seen straight through that. So he held her a little tighter — if it was possible to hold her any tighter than he already had been — and spent a minute breathing and noticing the scent of her hair and not saying anything.
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER