There's a moment where James calls his name and Liam isn't sure that he's made the right decision. Maybe this really was a bad idea, and maybe trying to fix things was the wrong thing to do. There's a clench in his gut as he prepares for the worst, but then his reaper is taking his hand and it helps to pull him out of the spiral that he'd been starting to flow down.

"I just," he starts, chancing a look up to meet James' gaze, "I wanna show you, but I don't wanna get you in trouble. You're more important to me, more important than anything."