Even now Sam's reluctant to admit it, but they are. The only other plan he'd had before was finding Albert and hoping that the two of them could put their heads together to figure out another way out of this, but that's... not exactly an option any more. He still won't say it outloud though. Instead, his hand grips Albert's just a little bit tighter.

"Yeah, brother, that was me. He wanted to surprise you." Sam grins back, shaking his head. "It was before last arena. Spent hours with him cooking potatoes, and then guess what shows up all over the space station? Thought about telling you then, but I didn't want to ruin it."