Clearly neither one of them had learned their lesson. Dempsey with that attitude that stirred something deep with in Dean's resolve and Dean had no wherewithal to see Dempsey making any more stupid decisions than necessary. Maybe that was his own vice that he could not quit.

He watched Don Juan go, hesitating again, but strode after him before the crowd swallowed him up. If nothing else he could keep an eye on him from across the party, pending Dempsey didn't do anything too stupid. The odds were not in their favor.

Dean caught up quickly enough, far too sober for this, but still determined to hover and be an obnoxious deterrent. "Maybe I'll join you." He said casually; as this was clearly his own stupidity surfacing again.