"That much is very clear," Anders chuckles.

"It's good, but it's also sometimes frustrating. That said. We're all guilty of pushing ourselves beyond what we should."

And doesn't he know it. 

"Yes. Very true."

"You need anything while I'm here?"

A hug? A genuine assurance that things will be all right? A bullet-

"No, I should be all right. I'll emerge once things are in a standard Darktown-Clinic-disarray."

Tana watches him for a moment, and then holds out her arms. "I could use a hug. I miss Rii already. So much it hurts."

Anders looks a little lost for a moment, but crosses the room and sinks into her arms. "I'm sorry. It can't be easy."

"For either of us," Tana agrees, hugging him tightly. "But we've got you. However you need that to be."

Watery laugh. "That could end up being a while."

"Well. Then it's a while. There isn't a time limit on this."

Perhaps not on that.

"Thanks, Tana."

"We look after our own, Anders. And you're one of those now."

"I seem to have a habit for getting adopted into found families."

"They are the best kind of family."

"Hopefully this is the one that sticks."

"We don't give up on people. We're stubborn like that. Sometimes even when they're trying to give up on us."

Well. It's like she can see straight through him. 

"I'll keep that in mind."

"-Screw it. C'mon. Down to my lab. Let's poke at things and see what happens."

"I'm okay here, I was just going to organise...something."

"You could come and try and impart some order to my domain. I'm a dreadful packrat and not very good at organising."

He can see when he's being nudged into something.

"I can try, though I did with Merrill and her shelves were promptly back to mess the next day."

"Ah, but for one glorious day everything will be neat and tidy and organised."

"Then lead on, so the attempt may be made."

Tana leads the way down into her lab, through the wall of noise that is the engine room. "I keep meaning to keep things in some kind of organisation," Tana says as she lets them into her lab. "But then I get distracted and well...it just never happens."

"Yes...I see you're working with the 'if I can see it, it's organised' system."