He pauses and gives a sidelong glance to the lighter in his partner's hand. He hasn't seen that since the very early days of meeting back up with Mick outside of juvie. The presence of it says a lot, and makes Leonard's shoulders tense for all that it means.

A sip of his beer to both explain explain his silence and to give him a second to move on from that. "What're you up to lately?"

There's a twinge in his chest at the fact that he even has to ask to truly know the answer to that question. This isn't how he pictured it, them, not a decade from now and certainly not this soon. He longs for the idealistic way he expected things to work our between them, and how close it use to be in reality.