Chuckling slightly, he gave her a friendly smile as he replied. “The items scattered all over the floor kind of clued me in,” Regan explained as he gestured towards the stuff still littering the floor. Maybe other people would have just as easily walked by and ignored Rae’s need for help, but that wasn’t really in his nature, plus this gave him something to do, something that wasn’t thinking about his own demons for the time being.
“Good, because if it was I’d have to tell you that your plan kind of sucks,” he remarked with a smirk, his tone teasing. “I mean unless you enjoy playing fifty-two pick up with random medical items.” Which who knew, maybe she did. But Regan had a feeling that she was a part of the normal population that didn’t necessarily enjoy scattering their personal belongings and such all over the floor in this manner. Out of the corner of his eye he caught the way she teetered just a little bit as she leaned down to pick things up, and he caught himself from saying anything, though the words were just on the tip of his tongue. Rae was working herself to the bone, taking care of both her cousins and Silas. But it wasn’t his place to tell her not to do that, for one they weren’t that close, and two, he wasn’t one to speak, he couldn’t remember the last time he had taken an honest to god break from anything. “Have to admit I wouldn’t know what either of those things are like,” he pointed out with a grin. “But like I always told my wife, maybe you just shouldn’t try to carry things that are almost bigger than you are,” Soli had been nearly as tiny as Rae, if not smaller. “That’s what guys are for, after all.” That remark had always gotten him a smack on the arm for Sol, but he didn’t expect the same from Rae.
When Rae thanked him, he just shrugged it off. “You’re welcome, though it really wasn’t that much of an inconvenience,” Regan answered, this time having a much harder time tamping down on the urge to tell her she needed to take a break. “Taking care of people is a full time job,’ he began. “One that it’s okay to take a break from if you need it.” Although he wouldn’t argue with her if she came back with some remark about not wanting anyone else to do it, he could understand the desire to take care of family and loved ones. “Proof that you are in fact just human, and not super woman.” His words were softened by the smile turning up the corners of his mouth.
Quirking an eyebrow, he wondered what exactly Rae was about to call Silas, but shrugged it off. “Yeah, thought I’d check in on him before my security shift,” By now he had to figure she knew it was habit for him to do that. Just like he kind of always expected to see Rae in the infirmary when he stopped by. “Thanks, I’m sure I’ll find him, wherever he might be,” although when she mentioned needing to get all that stuff back to her place, he wondered if he should change his plans and offer to help. “You’re going to carry that all back yourself?” He asked skeptically. “Any chance you might allow me to help you?”