"I-" he starts, pauses, swallows and takes a moment to reassess before going or it. "I got a surprise for you."

It is the smallest goddamn thing possible really. Not much of anything, but it's something. Two days wasn't really long enough to do the thing and have it healed so there's bandages on his ribs but it's. Something.

Something solid, a mark that not even time will take away.