Jo took a drink of her beer and studied Sam for just a moment.
"You shouldn't, you know. Keep people at arm's length. It's easy to do in our line of work, but..." she shrugged. "Sometimes you need to have someone to come home to. Gives you that little extra something to fight for."
She took another healthy drink from the beer since it wasn't like she'd really been taking her own advice. Pining after someone who didn't really return her feelings was pretty much another way of keeping people at arm's length.
"So when you say you 'turned into Scooby Doo...' you're talking metaphorically, right? You didn't actually turn into a dog?"