[Yes let's not bring up the dead parent thing, good call. When Clay feels Allen's hand on his own, he looks down at them, then smiles, a light blush on his cheeks, before he gets back to the conversation, this time focusing his attention on what's inside the shuttle itself.]

Nah. I almost did, but we had to postpone the mission due to some complications.

[It's only the first date, so Clay doesn't want to go into the details or anything right now. The bomb threat, the government wanting them to go through with it anyway, the plan they had to stage out... how everything got fuzzy after that, until he was brought here... No, that's definitely not first date talk.]

But I'm here now, so technically I made the dream happen. [And he can't help the silly grin on his face thanks to that.] And it's more than I could ask for, even if the conditions are really weird!