Bruce takes her hand to get up and then tries to catch her when she slips, both of them ending back on the ground. It stings, but it also makes him laugh. One of the many amazing things about Betty is whenever he feels stupid or embarrassed, she manages to get him laughing instead. They were friends before anything else, and he's glad no matter what they've stayed that.

"Do you remember that time at Harvard where you made all of us go outside at three in the morning, in the middle of finals, because it was Johnny DeGrasse's first snowstorm?" Bruce has a very sharp memory, especially because he sometimes kept sane purely by trying to remember good times in his life. "And of course you were the only one who didn't get the cold afterward."