Luke would have said he was reading too far into everything to try and tear things down. So Steve took a moment to try and shove everything in his head aside for now, if only so he'd stop muttering things like that, if just to get them out of his mind.

"Claire, you know that... that you were the only person in the whole damn world who cared about what happened to me?" he asked a few silent moments later, with remarkable clarity. It appeared he'd thought about this too. "My parents are dead. Everybody else thought I was dead. And you were the only person who bothered saving me. The only person who noticed me. You're still the only person who knew me when I was nor-" His voice seemed to disappear into a shaky breath around the last syllable.

"Normal," he said again.