"You should've seen him after he broke me out of prison!" Years ago, and Scott hadn't gotten hurt, but Allison didn't need to know that. She looked at him, all bright and surprisingly relieved. "Yeah," he said, smiling at her. "And I wasn't cooperative about it, either. I was all freaked out and refusing to go with him. It was kind of a mess."

That made her feel enough better to tuck into her meal. Storm waited quietly, hands folded, and Bobby - was, yeah, waiting to get Allison out of there so he could be blunt. Blunter?