"You had that answer ready so fast I think that's probably what you should be doing," Hopper says honestly, giving a rough laugh. She had asked the same of him and he hadn't had the slightest idea how to respond, but she hadn't even hesitated and he thinks that probably says something.

"This place gives you money, right?" he asks. The way he's worked out the budget, the amount this place gives him is enough to cover his rent and bills and enough food. What he needs a job for is to drink too often and too much, but if Lucy's not worried about that, he thinks she'd be okay in the stipend from the city.

Quit teaching and spend your days trying to work this place out and writing a book," he says with a smile. "Why not, right?"