"Yeah, me too, actually," Lee says, though he knows that he has no reason to be. He's seen exhaustion, been up for days at a time on approach after approach with only stims and frakking stubbornness keeping him upright. But this is something different. This is over a day of running the same scenarios over and over again in his head, realizing that the only way out of this was for the two of them to figure it out together.

"And considering how frakking crazy it's been for both of us so far this year, I think that's saying something."

Him with school, her with the sideshow the Mayor's office had become since New Year's Eve.