"More or less. Probably don't mean anything by it but they do." Except delta but he's not going there. He lets his hand drop back down to his lap, eyes following shortly. Right. "Hell, we've both always been masochists."

He's said that before. Way at the beginning when mal didn't know about how he felt. When he wasn't sure how to handle it aside from ignore and pray he'd get over it.

Maybe he should have stuck with plan A. No one got hurt in plan A.

"Maybe we should take some time to think about this. For a few days. And come back with a mediator so I don't keep putting my foot in it." Not that he'll be going anywhere else. Well. Not that he'd be going to anyone else.