Despite Hank's usual careless and money-driven demeanor, he actually held a firm rule when it came to his patients: no matter who you were, if you didn't listen to him, you could get lost.
He felt very fortunate that he had taken him in and nurtured him properly; he had not let him down and had lived up to his own expectations.
"Hank, the 'here' you're talking about is mine," Kevin Cliff stated plainly.
Hank on the other end was taken aback, and although there were a million curses he wanted to hurl, he just couldn't bring himself to say them out loud when he heard the extreme exhaustion in the voice on the other end of the phone.
He had only heard such a despairing tone once before, four years ago when he was picking someone up at the airport. That time, he had been so shocked that he wondered if he had picked up the wrong person.
That wasn't at all the demeanor expected of their mighty boss.
