It means I love you. It means I'd take a bullet for you, that I'll do anything I can to make you happy, that I want you to be safe. That I miss waking up next to you and would kinda like to make that happen all the time again, that when you're feeling good or happy or accomplished I feel good too even if I didn't do anything to help with that. It means when I fuck up and upset you it feels like failing. [ He slides a little closer to mal, much like he had the last time they'd kissed. Slow movements meant to keep him from getting spooked.

He reaches for Malcolm's hand, taking it by the wrist and leaning his cheek into Malcolm's palm like he had forever ago. ] It means I want to kiss you. I'd like it if you wanted to kiss me back. But first and foremost it means I want you comfortable with me. And I'll do or say or give anything I can to make that happen, to make this easier on you.

You're having this date, because it is a date, we agreed, I'm sorry but it is a date, to see if it's something you want. And it's fine if you don't. It really is. It's a...recon. This is recon. Scouting something out before the big mission. And sometimes that comes up good and everything goes forward and sometimes it's not a good idea and it's best to not. I don't know which this is. Neither do you. So we're...trying to see if it would be.