Jasper could call him Thomas Tylenol all he liked, there was no way there was any little pill that did that or she'd have heard of it. And a pill could never be this warm and sweet, all holding her and petting her while she rested her head against his chest. Plus people would never leave their houses and human civilization would collapse or something.

And in the mist that she got to float in when she was wrapped around Thomas like this, the only sour note was realizing how much she'd really needed it just to get her head cleared. It might not always be like that, there had been lots of stuff going down but then there always seemed to be. Easiest if she didn't worry about it until the next not-angry-why-do-you-ask phone call from Jasper. Way easiest to smile, contentedly tangled up with him. She didn't even have to say thank you 'cause he'd get the gratitude coming off her in waves.

When she finally moved to untangle them, Alice pulled him down for a long, soft kiss, a counterpoint to the frenetic everything she usually did, and smiled. "You're gonna have to remind me to take my medicine more often I think. I mean not that it's your job or anything, but I'm obviously not great about remembering how good it is." Or how much better it made her.