“Alright alright,” he said, raising his hands in the universal sign of surrender as he grinned, giving Gavin another curious look while Claire’s back was turned, though it was replaced by his infectious smile so quickly that Claire never had a chance to see it.  “No more talk of work, for any of us.”<br/><br/>He was more than happy for the excuse to keep his own demons to himself.  Claire and Gavin had known about his injuries, and known that they were bad, but specifics had been classified at his request.  He had not wanted them to worry more than they had, and any specifics would have sent Claire into a fit trying to get Gavin to leave her side and find him.  Things had worked out in the end, they were all together again after all and he could not ask for more.<br/><br/>At Claire’s comment about parading him around in front of her friends he blanched, half choking on his beer as he set it down on the table and half glared at her in mock anger, sharing a short lived glance with Gavin as they both had reason to remember exactly how much fun Bambi had been.<br/><br/>“Hey now! You leave her alone.  She was exactly what I wanted at that moment thank you very much; I had a number of fun and wild nights with her that I still remember fondly.  Not every relationship has to be completely serious after all,” he said with a wink.  “You never did like her much, I swore for a while that you were jealous of her, but that couldn’t have been it.”<br/>