How can someone shoot an exasperated Look at two folks at once? Bones manages, somehow.

'Pretend'?

He curls his fingers in to Hellboy, the universal lean closer before he can put his hands on the guy's collar, looking and feeling for a latch, a seam, anything in the cool metal that might be a way to remove it..

"I don't care if you are built like a brick shithouse, you still breathe oxygen. Not much of a tank if you choke." The litany of 'Doctor Stuff' continues, almost a stream of consciousness ramble, until he pauses to take a breath, and quietly murmur:

"How tough is that hand of yours?"