Another step backwards, and he's watching Ellie suspiciously now, like she's about to wield a weapon at him that he's not sure he's going to be able to dodge.

If that's meant to be some kind of sick, cruel joke... Telling him his baby girl is here, that she just so happened to arrive here a few months ago, after all the god damn years he's been torn apart by her dying in his arms--

"The hell are you talkin' about?" he replies, his voice low, almost dangerous.