Marcus quirked a brow and eyed his brother's hand carefully, making sure it stayed where it was and no further. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure he could break me, too, but it's a nice idea." He took another drink before finally relenting and handing it off to Blue's grabby hands. She had probably had way too much to drink for it being so early, but this had already been quite a long day and they all needed to loosen up.<br/><br/>At the mention of the notebook, both brothers perked up. Lex was silent at the joke, but Marcus laughed. "We'll definitely have to give it a read, for sure. Maybe it'll tell us what that godawful noise was."<br/><br/>In his own world, one that tuned out Blue and Marcus' conversation, Lex replayed his outburst over and over in his mind. He absentmindedly stroked his thumb up and down Blue's thigh as an idle comfort. What Marcus had said off-handedly as a throwaway comment had stuck with him. He knew he scared Jenessa. In fact, in the heat of the moment, that's exactly what he meant to do. But now it just made him feel ill. In all the years they'd been together, Lex had never raised his voice or his hand to her. Thinking back, he could imagine it scared her quite a lot. He tried to shake himself out of his thoughts.<br/><br/>"Is that where we are? The tower?" Lex asked, suddenly realizing he'd been totally unaware of his surroundings. Marcus made a noise in the affirmative. "Not a bad place to camp out." And a separate room at the top for he and Blue to steal off to.