"I don't need help." Danny doesn't make a move to take Ray's hand, but the lines of tension in his face and posture begin to relax a little. "There isn't anything anyone could do, anyway." Anyway, not anything without a pricetag that was just too high. If there was one thing he had learned from the past year, it was that any offer of help always came with conditions.

"Why do you care, anyway?"