Certain surprises, anyway. [It kind of reminds him that he needs to think about what to do for Billy's birthday. Damn, between their anniversary, Christmas, and Billy's birthday, that's a lot of things to think up for him...]

And since I don't want to get any closer to ruining the surprised, we'll talk about something else instead.

[Which is easy to do - again, something Teddy's grateful for ever since that awful month, when getting Billy to talk to him had been a rarity. They talk until they reach the lake which, as Teddy knew already, has a thick sheet of ice over it.]

Ah. Here we are.