The refusal is met with a blank, even stare. Boy. The number of times he's run that line through his head. Not that it isn't true. Pretty sure this guy is already fucked by sheer virtue of laying eyes on Tim at all. Hadn't taken Alex very long, had it? Or Brian. Or Jay. Or any of them.

Didn't take very long at all.

"How 'bout we cool it on the cliché tortured hero lines, huh?" says Tim, dryly. "That never stops anybody. I'm here right now, and I might be an asshole but I'm not just gonna ditch you when you can't even stand."