I'm coming out of my cage, and I've been doing just fine

 It was only a kiss. But Pan couldn't exactly recall when it happened or even why. Maybe it didn't even matter anymore.

Oh, it was quaint. Staying in. Just the two of them. 

"We should go the gym," Yeah, that's how it went. Pan nodded now. Of course, he wasn't one for the gym. Too many people. He'd said no, right away. 

"But it would be good for you," Wade laughed. Pan laughed. They sat on the couch and watched old episodes of MONK, trying to figure out who did it before Adrien did.

"Um," Pan shook his head. "Just too many germs."

"Now, you talk about germs," Wade smirked, shaking his head. Yeah, it was Pan who lost it this time. Didn't he remember how he'd become after Rox left? He'd lived in squolar. 

"We'll go jogging." That was the compromise. Wade could live with that. 

But now as Pan thought on it, maybe that was code for something else. It was all that running that led to something, or so it seemed. But he wouldn't call it Sleep.

It was a word he was used to. How to get it was hard.

"Well, you talk too much about it for one thing," Wade told him.

"You don't sleep any better than I do." 

Pan liked these discussions even if it kept them up all night. And then they entered another world. 

Pan felt like he woke up or maybe he finally went to sleep. But it was different now. They were so together. Yeah, he smiled on the inside about it. They could finish each other sentences in that giddy sort of way.