Finding himself in the bathroom. Hal didn't really even react to Alex's comment, still mostly just staring forward. Not looking at the blood, not focusing on anything until he could focus on that. Until it was gone. Until he was free of it. With her help, he removed his clothing with no thought to modesty and stepped into the piping hot shower finally letting the blood that still stained him run free and into the plug hole. Gone.
It was gone.
With a shuddering sigh he leaned against the wall of the shower, eyes finally focusing on Alex, finding her own.
"Thank you. Without you I couldn't have done this, any of this." It was a strangely intimate scene but for the limitations of her ghostly self and the ordeal they'd just been through. But still, she truly was beautiful, more so because she didn't believe it herself.
"Will you stay here, with me. Until the blood is gone?" he asked her