( I'm not going anywhere without you has him feeling some kind of way, especially in light of where he departed from, especially as he was so unwilling to leave Jim behind himself, but Bones just smiles through his red face, and takes it graciously. )

Thanks, Jim. ( Wetting his salt-chapped lips, he adds, because he needs to say it, ) You too.

( Back to the mind-boggling setting around them, he huffs with a kind of tired, dark amusement. )

Feels appropriate now, doesn't it. I must have lost my comm in the water, I had it on me before I left. Do you have yours?