Although he doesn't have any specific plans just yet, when Karen says she wants it to be just the two of them, honestly and exactly who they are, he nods before she even finishing saying it. He shifts, draping his arm along the back of the bench behind her, his fingers stroking her shoulder.

"Just us," he agrees.

They've told plenty of lies to other people, pretended to be things they're not, and while John has absolutely no issue doing that for work, he doesn't want it to cross over into their lives like that. It'll be just them. He'll make sure of it.