"I love you too," he replies with great sincerity and fondness, kissing her firmly as he eases back long enough to remember that they're going to need some form of protection and is grateful, really, for the fact that Dakin is apparently a presumptuous and perfect idiot, because when he's shedding his trousers, he finds a condom there.

There'll have to be words about that later. "Do you want to help? Or should I..."