"Sure," she accepted with a short nod. Jessica couldn't imagine a time when Nick didn't have some things going on. She wondered if he could function otherwise. "So I'm guessing vacation time is out of the question." It took every muscle in her body to brave Nick's sad gaze, to keep this up at all. But then, part of her thought that she was lucky that was all he'd given her, a look; anything more and she might've fallen apart. Like last time. "How long have you been back?" she asked. Good, another question, focus.