"If you need me for something here I can stay here."

"Can you promise that? And hold to that promise even on more backlash?"

"...we already talked about that!"

"Yeah, okay. I was hoping it'd go different when you had less backlash, since you seem more able to understand why you shouldn't do it."

He can keep tagging her but not while he's sleeping and she never did figure out how fast her power could go and whether it would get out of his range if she pushed it...

"I think it will probably be significantly safer for you to get more guiding than just us being shirtless was managing."

"...like the blood thing we're doing? I don't know how long it will keep being fun for Lia."

"Yeah, we'll stop it after not too much longer I think - maybe we can try it again later but for now we need to figure out other routes."

Blink blink.

Sigh.

"The best route here is probably you having some of my bodily fluids inside you. This could look like us having sex, you drinking my urine, or something more medically complicated."

"If you want to have sex with me you could have just said so."

"I don't want to have non-consensual sex with you."

"Well, probably the hospital staff won't like it if we do it right here but once we have privacy I'm fine with it."

"That's ... good. But I still am worried that you are not capable of consenting while backlashed and if you weren't backlashed you'd object."

"Do you have guesses as to what you would have thought about having sex with me if I'd asked you before today and it was necessary for your safety?"

"Well, it probably would have seemed really unlikely for it to be necessary for my safety. I was always pretty pro being safe when it didn't conflict with being a superhero though obviously not enough that I didn't die of being a superhero."

"Do you have a guess as to whether you would prefer sex or drinking pee or other medical options if you weren't backlashed?"

"....well, I've never done either of those things before but one of them I wanted to get around to eventually and the other one I did not."

"I know this is a very dumb question but just so I don't accidentally miss something. Which was the one you wanted to get around to."

"Sex."

Nod nod.

"And do you think getting around to it in less than ideal circumstances would be okay?"

"I'm fine with it!"

"Do you think you would have been fine with it yesterday?"

"...well, I didn't have sex with you yesterday but I also didn't know you wanted to then, I guess I'm not sure how that would have shaken out."

"If you knew I wanted to have sex with you, do you think you still would have been fine with doing it for safety reasons?"

"I would probably have wanted to think about it first but I can't do that now."