"Dude, I brought it up. What are you sorry for?" She's not even sorry she'd brought it up, because he's protesting a lot, but she's still glad she said something. Maybe he thinks Derek is just looking to get laid, but Kate knows for a fact that isn't true at all, she knows he's looking for something more and that the people he's sleeping with -- or has been anyway, it's not like she's keeping track -- aren't looking for relationships from him either.

Pretty much everything he says about Derek having other people doesn't at all fall in line with what Kate knows of him, but she can only meddle face to face so much. Even she has limits. Sometimes.

"And whatever, at least no one has thrown the turkey or turned into someone else or flashed everyone here," she points out brightly. "So in terms of family holidays, this is all actually pretty tame."