She doesn't like to be seen as weak, nor does she like to be forced into a position of weakness. It's something he's been aware of for a while, and he's wondered if their relationship will end when she's fully back on her feet -- if she'll see it as a reminder of a bad passage of time where she wasn't herself.

He understands it because he doesn't like it either. Not necessarily weakness, physical vulnerability, but being too emotionally tangled in his past. It's part of why he'd wound up here with her: he'd left the party with her rather than trying to leave it with Darcy, because there was too much meaning and too much failure there.

And he watches her as she folds her disquiet back up into herself, holding his hand and eventually letting it go.

"Are you sure you wouldn't rather go to my room?"