"I studied long and hard to learn how to heat up cans over open flame," he said with a sage smirk. But Alec's question about his type takes him a little by surprise.

He takes a moment to stir his crackers into his soup - it's better than Alec would suspect - as he thinks about his answer. He's been a professional physician and made that his focus for so long that he hasn't really thought of A Type beyond 'attractive, available, and not looking for committment'.

"In general, or are we still talking about the purely hypothetical situation in which I'd spend the rest of my life with someone?"