When it was starting to get dark, Gabriel realized that Dal hadn't left yet. Which meant it was now too far for him to walk to where he needed to go unless he did so in the dark. Considering everything, he wouldn't have been comfortable allowing that. It was a struggle because he knew that Dal needed to work to make the rent but...

Doing his best to ignore that shoulder, he went to his coat and slipped some money into the pocket before going over and gently rearranging him to be less tangled up and more stretched out on the couch. He'd let him sleep. Somehow he had a feeling that Dal didn't get to 'sleep in' like this that often.

With that, he went back to his work, dimming the lights to make sure that he could still see but the man on the couch could sleep peacefully. It was a challenge to not keep thinking about that bare shoulder but he really did his best.