[It's funny - it's like their places have reversed. Instead of him protecting Matt, it's Matt protecting him. Part of him wants to laugh, but the rest is too busy getting borderline dehydrated.]

[In all honesty, he's likely needed this. He'd had to suck it back up, smooth it back over, once Pidge started her own tears. Maybe he hadn't needed to, but he'd felt like he should, for her sake. This is... needed.]

Yeah - too long before I asked you to ... to make it official, you know? Way too long.

[It is his fault, ultimately.]

We didn't even - it lasted a week.