"Just a blanket and a bit of cider," he answers with a grin, but he leans into the kiss happily, reaching up to cup the side of Dan's face as he does. It's more than that and at this point he thinks Dan at least suspects, but that doesn't mean he has to spoil the surprise this early on in the evening.

He at least wants to get them seated first.

Now that they're here, really here, and Marcus is sinking down to sit on the blanket, he'd expected some kind of nerves. There isn't. If anything, he feels more certain than ever.

"It's been a year," he says as they settle. "Almost to the day."