"Food first, unless you can honestly tell me you've eaten something substantial in the last twelve hours." He knows, he knows, but she looks run ragged. The fastest way he knows to fix that is to make sure she gets all the care she's been ignoring for God knows how long.

And really, her gesture isn't helping to mute his protective tendencies at all. It reminds him entirely too much of Joanna, pouting as she was cleaned up for dinner, in one of the rare videos he managed to get a hold of.