"So, what are you waiting for?" She flashed him a small grin. Even though they were in a horrifying place on her birthday snooping around and in a real likelihood of dying, Hayley wouldn't let a chance to give him a friendly hassle go by without taking advantage of it. It was the system their friendship had fallen into in the day-to-day, teasing to mask the real similarities.

Still teasing, she added as quietly, "I don't even know why I'm here, except that you're stubborn and keep insisting I'm involved or something."

Hayley had wanted to go. She had pushed to be included, though there had never been a need to push, and was the first to admit, when being honest, how much she wanted to be involved and to be there. Particularly with Kon- since Bart and Mark were relegated to fighting.