"I feel like I should be protesting, but you might be onto something," she agreed, though really she still fancied her chances against him if it came to it, though it was probably better if she tried not to have those kinds of thoughts right now. She swallowed heavily as he went on, why did him taking the piss do it for her? Even now, when she was so tired she felt almost drunk. "Careful with talk like that, sweetheart, not sure I'm up to the rough stuff, right now."
"I think that's how it is for a lot of people," she agreed, it was odd how she tended to just think of him as he was now, even having 'met' him when he was younger, maybe because this was how she liked him, even with all his anger and stress and issues caused by a job that had been far too hard on him, but as far as she was concerned he was perfect like this, she wouldn't have wanted him any other way.
She reached out for his hand when he agreed, smiling up at him as she pulled him closer, resting her head against his stomach for a just moment. "You know you're gonna have to join me, right?" she asked, "not sure I can be trusted not to fall asleep and drown."