"Well I hate to break it to you buddy, but Jessica is here and .... we won't get into what happened, but I don't intend on letting that happen again. I have no intention of hurting Niki." He hoped that the part about him being an empath didn't include reading his mind the way River sometimes did otherwise he feared he would be faced with a jealous exboyfriend. "And where is this Monica staying? How do I know she's safe from Jessica?" He was going to need a really stiff drink after all of this, that one thing was clear.