Met the dude once. And yeah, he is a massive asshole.

[Pokey tries to remain silent as Dave talks. To let the guy speak. Dave tends to have his head even; again, dude was cool, and that was a certainty. And he wants to show Dave he respects him, trusts him, even though it's hard to believe there's a scrap of decency in him beyond what other people have given him and those that he knows.

Just.

It's so hard to take his compliments. His defenses of him. Hard to listen to when he's almost just so damn against them.

But it does mean something. To hear them. And when the dude talks about Waverly Bay? Hell. Pokey can relate to that easy enough.

He finally trusts himself to look at Dave again, that he isn't crying like a little pansy now. And smiles. Just a little.]

Thanks dude. Sucks we're still doing this crap, but hey. If I'm getting tossed around the universe with people, glad you're one of them too.