I mean, technically I didn't. I didn't fight for myself at all, and I know it bothered him... [He played his other cards, and poured all his energy into the person who probably deserved it the least, and everyone else around him.] I...promised I would though, next time. But I don't think that was good enough, or maybe he didn't believe I actually would?

[And he knows Vincent does, he wasn't kidding when he'd admitted the gesture was sweet, that it was probably the most romantic thing anyone had ever done for him, and yet?]

That requires being firm, and I can be a firm asshole about plenty, but setting boundaries is like the furthest outside my comfort zone.