Re: [ER: Newt & Patrick]
"I am sorry you were left to wonder all those years," Patrick said, genuinely and truthfully sorry. This seemed more important than thanking the dude for feeling safe with him, but the red in Newt's cheeks made that unimportant too, and the dude chuckled a little. "Do you say that to everyone?" he asked, and this was a most deliberate mirror of the similar conversation they had embarked upon about the word darling. "The only term of endearment I have ever used, other than my regulars, man, is babe. Would you like to be babe?" he asked, the increased effect of the sedation showing in a great amount of ease when discussing such things.
But, right, the go ahead, and the dude just nodded again and rested his head back against the white-linen and raised back of the bed.
And, Patrick, he was most absolutely asleep when Newt returned.