Jim makes a soft sound for that. He hadn't been around in the early days of Bones' divorce, but he'd seen the aftermath. They'd both been broken in different ways when they came together, but whole as they've become, Jim recalls how long it'd taken Bones to scrape himself together.

He doesn't want that, but then, Jim doesn't want any of this. "Is that what I am now?" he asks. He's not divorced, but how can he be married to someone that's not here? Spock lies across a divide now that's as wide as death, however whole he might be on the other side. "A widower?"