Nicky made a show of rubbing his arm, but he was all smiles as he did. "I know, I know. But hey, if you still scraped one every now and then, you'd have to be down here more often. Think about it." He punctuated that last with a quick swat of his own, but to Anne's rear end as she passed through the hatch.
He gave her one last kiss before heading back to his rack to pass out.