The danger is over for now, then. He'll just have to be vigilant to keep it from happening again.

Somehow.

He's neatly derailed from the impossibility of that task by her last statement. Family. He's never been anyone's family, that's not possible, he knows; but the word stirs something in the back of his brain, and in the pit of his stomach, like maybe he should have been. "Family?" he repeats, actually sounding like a question, actually sounding like there's emotion behind the word. And that emotion is confused and small and uncertain.