"You said it, not me," Eliot retorted. Dean's plans to remove that grin didn't work too well since it popped right back soon after Dean pulled away.

"All I said was to shut you up. That could be done a many number of ways."

The distraction was suitably working though. Although his blue eyes were still a little troubled, Eliot was laughing and joking, the television playing in the background all but forgotten in the background.