"I can't ask you to take them out entirely, but dialing it back would be a nice place to start. Less murder, more self-defence." He knew that he was asking a lot of John. After all, how much impact could he have when John had been in and out of rehab so many times for these problems already? "But yes, it would make me happy." He let himself smile a little. "I'd like to know that I maybe had some positive impact on you."

He shifted his focus a little, scrubbing a little at John's face before letting him go. "You should finish up and dry off. I'll go ask how much longer the decontamination of the TARDIS is going to be. Maybe we can still have some time together before he takes me back." He ran a hand through his damp hair and started toward the door of the chamber.