This is freaking perfect. What a great scene to tell. I like this, that you capture that...what? That awkwardness, that need to do things right, that unsureness in what is the right step to take, what might be too far to go, that slight off-step that is purely Fraser, trying really hard.

Ben closed his eyes for a moment. "That would be ... fine," he said, frustrated by the inadequacy of his current vocabulary. "Thank you."

Great...wonderful!...writing.