"We can get someone to call that one guy who was there when everyone disappeared," Stan says. "If they give you any trouble." Righteous anger always wakes him up, and right now he knows that he needs to be awake in order to do things like make it back to the house, get the blood off, and crash. Some in-store scrubbing had helped, but he knows it's there.

So he thinks about something else instead, which happens to be pretty easy to do-- anything thinking capacity that hasn't been focused on survival has been completely caught up in Fraser, in what he's allowed before it becomes too much. Stan's always been slower to act, considering the fallout, and while the decision to kiss Fraser right then had been on impulse, the larger decision has been made for a while now.

"Not sure if Bill or Richie's coming, but we should get to leave soon."