[He can read him better than anyone. Even when he's wearing his mask of congeniality, Henry knows Alec's learned to see through it as though it were never there.

He turns his hand palm-up, fingers gently curling around his.]

We'll give it some time first. ["We" makes it feel like it isn't an impossibility.] I doubt she wants to see me right this very moment. And I still don't feel at one hundred percent.