Because -- [ her voice is strained as she tries to shove him up, and off of her. difficult, really, with her legs locked around his waist. just now would be an opportune moment for a headbutt, but she suspects that would give her far more of a headache that it would him. (on account of his thick skull, surely!) ] Because you and I live on the same bloody ship. We eat together. We travel together. We -- we can't go calling every different hour a different date.

[ dates are dates, certainly. but they also co-habitated. a distinction must be made. ]