There was an immediate wary response at the off-handed use of the L word from Collette, but that, too, was just as quickly dismissed. Collette was overly affectionate with enough people. He was sure she would have said the same thing if he had been, say, Ellie, of course. Still, it made him reluctant to move over immediately, though that was in part because he was feeling lazy, too...

Caesar picked the cube up and gave it a bored look, not at all bothered by the cute remark, much less the cheeky grin. "Not really. She gets fleas everywhere, so watch out."

It helped that he had plenty of comments to return fire with in storage.

After he finished looking the rubix cube over, he finally gave a massively exaggerated sigh and got to his feet, grabbing an arm of the chair as he went. Over to the side of the bed he went, dragging it along after and, once there, setting the toy down on the nightstand.

"No thanks. I'm not interested in toys," he replied, then flopped back down in his chair. "This doesn't have singing in it, does it?"