"Plans. Oh yes, the plans," he said, using most the same talk he would have in the past, but there was no hard edge on it. Not anymore. Not like their used to be. All that had been before, the roughness to Eames' teasing and now that was gone but the teasing wasn't. "Can't let anything ruin the plans,' he teased.

He dressed carefully, but as himself. Just more tamed down, so that he wasn't wearing paisley with burgundy slacks. Nope, they were fawn colored. That was tamer, right?

Glancing over at Arthur, pausing to look him over and take it all in with a smile. "I'm definitely looking forward to this date, and you," he said, giving Arthur a wink.

"WE should do it more often," he said suddenly. "Things outside all the rest. For you and me." Dating beyond just a date, making time for one another. He wanted that.