“Let’s go with that,” he grins, taking the easy out, to latch onto something easier to deal with that won’t take quite so much heart out of him.

He settles in comfortably to listen to whatever stories Negan might decide to drudge up from his past, and he’ll even share a few of his own, like the time he waxed his ass with chocolate pudding because sometimes being out of your mind on drugs made stupid shit sound like a great idea.