oh, boys! *huggles them all* It really is going to take them a while to get past this, but at least they're trying and actually *listening* to each other.

Also... so *that's* what Lester wanted to talk to Becker about in chapter two as soon as Connor was out of the room! I'd always wondered why we never actually got to hear that conversation, because I'd kind of assumed it was going to be about the nature and rules of the relationship, and therefore seemed like something we *ought* to have heard, but now I see why you went all fade to black on us with it!