"If it wasn't there you would've shot me in the canon instead of murmur my name like you saw a ghost." Kill first, ask questions later. "If it wasn't there we wouldn't have had anything to make you jealous of a dumbass guard's lonely fantasies now."

It's a tentative thing, the looping of his arm around Wash's waist. It's actually pretty chaste- but he wasn't lying earlier. It gets chilly and he sleeps better with someone in the bed with him. "Words or fists? Cuz you punching someone for eyeing me is kind of sweet. And kind of hot."