Edward can feel the heaviness, the exhaustion, and worries that the other man's poor body may collapse any moment. How Thomas Jopson is even still walking around... is a wonder in itself, though he can waste no time, and gets right to work trying to help the other man up the steps and into the home.

It's a long, laborious process. Little moves painfully slowly, one leg at a time, bending to help the other man's legs make their way up the steps as much as he's able.

"We're almost there, just— a little more," he pants, holding on tightly, using a hand to shove open the door and then haul Thomas in.