It takes everything in Mick not to protest when those fingers close around his wrist and bid him to stay, to try and hmmer home that whatever weakness Mick has it somehow isn't his fault .

He'd needed something so goddamn simple.
But it wasn't something he could get from his partner.

All Mick wants to do is hold him, tell Leonard that they're okay and that nothing about what happened changes anything between them.

But when have either of them been good with feelings lately?

"I know Lenny. I know."

He shifts uneasily. "Stay with me? Just until.. until I fall asleep."