"If.. if you wanted me to, then yeah." The grin is encouraging and he smiles, shifting closer to him. Okay. Okay, this was going better than he'd anticipated.

"Dean's okay with it. We've talked. If there are some hunts out in California, or a couple of days out, I'll go with him. But he's gotten used to me staying in one place. He's good with it. So's Derek. I can work on my control with Derek, enough so I don't have to rely on a pack as much. If I need to, I can come back for a couple of days."

Yeah, he's been doing a lot of planning and a lot of thinking about this already.