"You're pretty good at pretending, bro, because you've been nice to me. But I did give you booze." Desmond likes Vasquez, he liked him from the moment they met. He doesn't really have many friends, so he'll take it in any form he finds. But he's not ultimately surprised to hear that. The man's pretty well composed and clearly a badass. Just also cool and funny.

He laughs. "That is the best idea. Hopefully she doesn't have one of our hidden blades by then, but sparring over dinner wouldn't be that out of character." Lucy just has to agree to it, which will probably be the difficult part. Or who knows, maybe doing something normal like a date is what they need to stop being dramatic and over the top. "If I remember right, my mother said she only accepted my father's proposal when he beat her in one of our lethal obstacle courses." It wasn't the most romantic story to tell a five year old, but that's Assassins for you.