If Peter was aiming to keep him off balance, he did the job well. Derek never quite knew what was going to pass and what wasn't, whether he intended to make assumptions or comments to provoke Peter or not.

"So, it's all just waiting, then? Until you snap and I lose it again because of that?" Derek wasn't sure he liked that it seemed like a big waiting game, just holding on and being decent enough around each other until something snapped Peter's trigger.