“You're a fool,” Lenny scolded you as he dabbed your split lip with the corner of a rag. “A great big fool, you know that?”

You were sitting in a hotel room currently. You and your lover had been at a bar, and you'd gotten rather… rowdy with some others there after overhearing some comments they’d made about the man in front of you now.

“I love ya, but you can't do this all the time,” Lenny sighed, pausing his work at your lip to kiss your forehead. “I don't need protection.”