Zach gives Justin some pages of recipes printed out from his email. With a quick glance, Justin immediately sees this is going to be a very different cooking experience for him: there are spices listed in the ingredients that he's never heard of. "What the hell is 'fenugreek', Zach? And where do I get it?" Zach didn't know any more about the strange spice than Justin did, but he did have directions to several Indian markets, all on the Westside. Justin scheduled the dinner for right after Eleanor's last exam. And while she studied for her tests, he studied the recipes, tasted the different spices involved, made little test batches of sauces, until he felt he understood the flavor he was aiming for. By chance, Gavin is home for dinner, with Shay, the night of the meal. All the better, because unlike Eleanor, himself & Diego, they've had Indian food before, and that gives him three experienced opinions to judge his performance. His cooking pleases them all, which always gratifies Justin.

Zach is more than impressed with Justin's handling of his friend's recipes. Justin had already figured out Eleanor asked him to make this meal at Zach's request, and Zach has clearly forgotten the pretense by now, so ecstatic about the quality of Justin's interpretations of his friend's recipes he overcomes his shyness & actually offers to pay extra for groceries if he'll cook Indian food more regularly. Justin doesn't want Zach's extra cash, but he loves being complimented on his cooking.

More importantly, Eleanor wants to show him some gratitude. "Thank you for doing this for me," she says, more devious than Zach, she's still pretending it was her idea. Justin will take her thanks just the same, she so clearly enjoys being able to make him do things for her, it doesn't seem to matter what, she'll even take requests. "If you like it, I'll do it again," he says, and watches her quiver uncontrollably for a moment, her lips growing wet as she smiles at him. They're sharing a memory, another time when he spoke those very words to her in a different context.

Eleanor likes to make him do things for her, and he likes to make her respond to him, to see her cheeks grow flush & have her get weak & need to be held up just because he whispers, "I brought what you asked for," in her ear. Tonight it's just nipple clamps. Justin leads her back to his room, knowing that now that she's through with her finals & the summer has begun, she'll have a whole season with nothing to do but demand more & faster.