Gods above and below, even the grumbling is cute; Liam is one hundred percent certain that it should be illegal for someone who's very capable of tossing him through a window to be this soft. Not that he'll ever mention that to James- this is just something that Liam decides that he'll keep to himself, a gentle moment he can draw back on whenever life starts to get too rough.

For a fleeting moment, he wonders if James knows how much even these little things help.

"Yeah, we do," he's not going to lie, but that doesn't mean he can't try to logic his way into getting James to rest more. "But it's..."

He trails off for a second, then makes a very vague gesture with one free hand, "it's one of those things that like, you know when you know. You never start out knowing where you're going, but you definitely know when you get there."