He gives a soft huff, almost a laugh but for the grim realisation that's dawning on him.

Helly's terrible at this.

Which means he has no objective idea of his surroundings, he is being forced to rely on someone who has no idea how to best work with him and is extremely likely to start some kind of scene here, and... fuck it all, he misses John. Even if he just betrayed everything they were working towards.

"Right." He makes no motion to reach for the shoes, because he has no idea where she is. "Well. Let's get a few things out of the way before we get too ahead of ourselves, shall we? I think we need to lay out some- some ground rules first. Co-ordinate our situation as we understand it."