Bella hesitates, but only momentarily, and then she nods rather more than would be necessary for mere communicative purposes.
Alternate solutions ensue.
"Mmmmm," she sighs, snuggling up.
"Thank you for stopping." Pause. "Even though I objected at the time, thanks."
"I believe preserving your health at the expense of your immediate satisfaction favours both your priorities and mine."
"Yes. And slightly-less-immediate satisfaction was haaaad," she sighs. (Snuggle snuggle snuggle.)
And begin speaking nonsense.
"White moon fuzz swim."
It will go on being just that adorable for as long as he doesn't wake her up.
Bella sleeps straight through the night and wakes up at six-thirty, puzzled. "...Did I fall asleep?"
"How long?" she yawns. "Feels all - morning-y." (Snuggle snuggle.)
"Does that mean half past or half an hour in advance of?"
"Did you just lie there holding me all night long?" she marvels. "That's sweet - aaaaand Charlie is going to be frantic if he wasn't out working all night." She disentangles herself and reaches for her phone. It is dead; it has been for hours. "Fuck."
"It's okay, I'll tell him I'm fine, it'll blow over. Jarvis, are you by any chance hooked up to a phone line...?"
She rattles off her dad's cell and his landline. "Can you call the landline first, and if he doesn't pick up, the cell?"
"Dad! You're home, good. It's me. I wound up crashing at Sherlock's and my phone was dead, I'm so sorry. I'm fine, everything is fine, please tell me Sunnydale isn't crawling with cops looking for a missing person?"
Charlie's response is a sigh of utmost relief. "Bells. Oh lord, Bells, you scared me. No. No cops looking for a missing person. I know there's - things, going on, cops might make it worse even if you had it under control to start, I was going to call the school and see if you showed up before jumping to assuming you were in something bad."
"I will be showing up to school, at the usual time," Bella promises.
"There will be no more crashing at Sherlock's," Charlie says.
"I'll see you this evening," Bella says instead of agreeing. "Or right around sunset when I stop at the house if you're there then. Bye, Dad!"
"Bells -"
Bella makes a cut it gesture at the nearest camera.