"I know it doesn't have anything to do with Bakura. But...being here, staying here..." Gene frowns, trying to think of how to explain it. "I'm avoiding the inevitable. As if by keeping myself here, what happens there doesn't ever happen at all. And that's...cowardly of me." He shakes his head. "I don't want to be a coward anymore. Whatever happens...I'll face it. If that means I die, or am kept a prisoner like you saw in the Dreaming...then that's what happens."

He is perhaps a bit more adamant about this now than he would normally be, but he wants to prove to Tony that he has changed, that he's different now. That he's better. And facing the responsibility he's been ducking is one surefire way to prove it.