That deserves (and gets) an eye roll. What a melodramatic pair they make.

"Weren't you just yelling at me for having destroyed everything we worked for?" he spits back. "I've a right to be utterly miserable. Everything's gone to hell and now I can't even go back to fix it." If this damned time travel had only provided him with an actual opportunity to undo things rather than just mess things up worse. Then he'd --

A blink. The alcohol is blurring him worse than he'd thought, because he'd almost forgotten the whole point in confessing everything to his alternate self. Abruptly, he reaches out to grab the other Miles by his collar again. "But you can."