You had me fooled 'till the end! I would have sworn his team remained young because they had died, and he was remembering them before it happened, when they had been happy. I had bitter tears all ready to fall for the seeming lone survivor, and then I read the last two lines, and I smiled

Oh my gosh, you almost made me cry.

I was wondering why on Earth he was so focused on how they 'used to' look and not opening his eyes. I was wondering if he'd had some reversed 'Old!Weir' thing going on.

Oh my. In some ways Season 1 was the best. They just...yeah. Great team.

Great fic.

That's all she wrote.

Oh, this gave me chills- the good kind, mind you. Very well written, and it almost makes me want to write a Blind!John AU.