"--Are any of the VKs we have going to have sex, is this something where I need to email Ben tomorrow and get it sorted out or something where I need to deal with it right now."

"— uh, Mackenzie maybe Carlos maybe Claudine no?" 

He kisses Sasha's forehead. 

"You're great. Going to go deal with this. Sorry."

He nods and tucks himself into Kaleva. 

"--I'm glad I don't have to deal with that anymore."

"I don't know what you mean by that." 

"Doing a thing and then suddenly something in the government has gone wrong and you have to stop whatever you're doing to deal with it."

Sasha nods and doesn't move away from him. 

"I'm glad you can stay with me and not have things come up." 

"Yeah. --He has a crush on me."

"This is true." 

Head goes back into pillow.

"Are you alright?" 

"...No."

He pets Kaleva's hair and presses his face into Kaleva's shoulder. "Do you want to talk about it?" 

"Not really. --I haven't had anybody have a crush on me before except you and I was kind of too sexually frustrated to be anxious at the time."

More hairpetting. He kisses the patch of shoulder in front of his face. "I'll be here no matter what?" he tries. 

"It's just a lot easier when people are not into guys or not into me and then I can't date them."

He nods and curls up on Kaleva. 

"I'm sorry I'm not better at. This." 

"No, you're perfect."

He hugs Sasha. 

Hugs are very good. 

"You're my people," he says, his voice soft. 

"Yeah. --Whenever I think about it I want to curl in a ball on my bed and never move."