"I would really like to shower," Dan admits, because he feels like he could use about twenty more of them to feel like all the grime is truly gone. He also thinks a chance to try and figure out the tangle of feelings he'd woken up in would be supremely useful.

"Better be careful," he says, and if his smile is a little wistful, he's not sure he can control that. "You'll never get rid of me at this rate."

It's not until he's actually scrubbing his skin pink that he realizes it'd been a way to say I don't want to leave.