It had to be all in his head but Austin was so sure he felt a tingle through his shoulder where Beau touched him. Your brain did weird shit when you still loved someone. "Can I just take a moment to be grateful explosive diarrhoea isn't a symptom of a hangover?" he murmured, trying to settle back on the bed but he was even tenser now than when they first began talking. Beau probably felt like he changed a whole lot since he had been sick - he said as much - but in essence, Beau was still in there. He was still bluntly honest and wasn't filtering for Austin's sake. That was another part of him Austin fell in love with when they met. Beau could be gentle when he needed to and had a great bedside manner but he didn't panda to anyone when honest truth bombs were needed. He didn't pretend to be anything he wasn't. "There's nothing you need to be sorry about. None of this is anything you should be apologising for. Thank you, but no. I need to hear the truth. It's the only way I'll be able to move on. Just like that Kelly Clarkson song..."