All the more reason I don't want to be here. I finally have my emotions settled into a place where I can either ignore them or use them to my own benefit. [While there was literally no point complaining about it, he was going to anyway. This was their manly bitch session.] Let's hope we don't have a repeat performance then? Might make things overly complicated and you're dealing with enough shit as it is.

[He was still nursing his way through his second, though he was getting to the end of it. He wasn't in any hurry as they had all night, and he was here as moral support so that Gabe could just vent and release his tension and grief.]

You always were one for contingency plans.