It wasn't all hopeless then. If he could show up, then there was a good chance his brother still would. "It'd be just like one of us to show up late to a near Apocalypse," he replied, shrugging a shoulder. After what they'd just been through, he wanted to know his brother was all right. But a call to Doc's, only to be told off in annoyance that it was only the restaurant's name and there was no actual person there by that name.
This time the smile stuck around longer. "A good whiskey if you've got it. I'm willing to pay you for it." He glanced around the lobby again. "I think I'm going to be needing it." Especially when he decided to sit down and really read that link he'd been given. The important details he'd gotten but there was enough there worth another look.