If Friday had a neck to choke-- Tony really would have considered choking her at this point. He groaned before the music was cut, grateful that all of this was just audio.

"I put my teeth under my pillow and the tooth fairy came," Tony said, sounding like there was cotton in his mouth from all of the swelling. He'd lost two molars but they were in the process of being regrown to insert back into his mouth.

Without Helen, sometimes it was hard to get the technology in. Perhaps in a few hours he would feel more whole.

"How's your bestie?"