[ Derek can't help grinning at the moment of uncertainty before Caroline decides to throw caution to the wind to try a new type of jerky. He's glad he won't have to try it alone, in any case, because everything is better with someone else. Someone who's lived as lonely a life as Derek's last decade ought to know.

So he unwraps it and tears it in half, handing a piece to Caroline and keeping one for himself. ]

Worst that can happen is it's gross and we have to go get a drink to wash the taste away, right? Here goes nothing...

[ What he doesn't do is wait for Caroline to try hers before braving a bite of his own. ]