[He loves hearing her laugh, if only because he knows it's something that's not come easy to her for a long, long time. Knowing he brings it out in her makes it all the more special.]

I'm sure he'd appreciate that- a gift from you, I mean. It'd be more significant, coming from you rather than some make believe beardo guy. Who, let's face it, sounds kind of like a creeper from an outside perspective.

[Which AJ for sure has. He also has the boarding school- though he very almost didn't. Louis still feels some guilt about that- voting to get them kicked out- AJ nearly getting killed because of it. He acted out of anger, and it was a lesson for him to not do that again.]

Well, assuming we don't all die horribly in our valiant rescue attempt, you two get to keep that at least.