Of all the things, huh... I guess I'd have to add one stipulation though.

[If only because that look on Jude's face always makes him feel so leaden. It gets him to thinking there is perhaps one other thing he'd want, aside from companionship. And that sentiment's been his reason for avoiding talk of his experiences with 2B, or even telling her that he'd long ago ascertained what her real designation was. What her real assignment was.

There comes with it far too heavy a risk of causing her more pain, and he remembers so clearly now all of the times he'd compounded weight on her already burdened heart]

I'd want to be able to make somebody like that smile.

[Maybe it's a silly thing for all that it's so incredibly mundane, but in such a pained, at times tortured existence, something as small as that strikes him as precious. And it's something he already wants with the people he can spend his time around now, all the more for those he's closer to.

Excuse him as he reaches across the table, gloved hands cupping Jude's cheeks]

That goes for friends too, for the record.