When Faraday puts it like that, Vasquez quickly understands how desperate he'd been to avoid this conversation, because when you say it like that, it really does sound like he went to a lot of trouble just to avoid this. Only, here he is now, naked and in Faraday's bed, so he only put it off for a week.

Making a sour face, he shrugs, not sure what he can say here. "I said a lot of things when I had that fever, I wasn't so sure how you would react." So it was simpler to not be around.

"I had a fever," he agrees, bluntly. "I didn't tell you a single lie."