[He squeezes her hand back, a half-smile of his own breaking onto his face.]

'Course I would. I'd even bring you your favorite frapp.

And hell...I didn't know what you were all going to do with me. I mean, there was Al, definitely the enemy. And Joker...I don't know what I thought he was doing there but he was a conspirator.

And then there was you, the alchemist mastermind behind it all.

[He punctuates that with a light poke at a ticklish spot on her neck. One that's quickly withdrawn, since it's with his bad hand, but all the same. Even if he's still feeling out of sorts, he knows that even a little bit of playfulness can go a long way for both of them.]

I thought I'd been sent on a mission to seduce secrets out of you and you'd caught on and...I don't know, you'd obviously done something.