"You know, not making an all brawn and no brains joke is really difficult with a set-up like that," she teased him lightly as they approached the pub door. She didn't fully trust Porthos any more than she fully trusted anyone else, and she was always prepared for him to use what he knew about her against her, but until that happened, she was willing to have a drink with him.

And if he did decide to do something stupid, she would handle it. He was larger than her and just as trained, probably, but that was how it went sometimes. Not all fights were as easily finished as the flips she'd just been doing on her self-defense students.

"But I'm going to resist, because I am a good person."

She wasn't. Not in a lot of ways. But that was what made the statement funny, at least to her.