"For a long time, I didn't think he would ever come around," he replies with a rueful smile. For a time he had also been lost in his own darkness - so seeing any sort of future had been difficult.

He finds himself in her room, not quite of what to do with himself, and after a second he hesitantly lowers himself into one of the chairs to wait.

"It's been a long time since we've managed being alone, hasn't it?"

Not counting tonight, obviously.