❛ look after yourself, please. i still need you. ❜ ONE OF MANY
his hair is a mess, a mark of his disheveled state ; he’d been woken up at four in the morning to be told that the team had to get o the jet within the hour. a rush to get ready had woken up lexie, and despite his pleas for her to get some REST before her shift, the two of them were standing in her kitchen. one hand is being used to hold his coffee, but he reaches out with the other to gently stroke her hair. “ it’ll be alright. ” he isn’t used to having someone on the outside worry about him ; of course the team does, but besides them, there’d never been anyone calling just to check in or stopping by his apartment to make sure everything’s alright. “ it should be pretty straightforward. make sure you get some sleep, okay ? i don’t want to find out my girlfriend passed out from exhaustion. ”