As Aiden explained, Jude actively listened with his hands folded on the table before his meal. The young man didn't seem upset about the incident at all - of course, he would be that type of person, one to easily brush off offenses against him and give it some explanation or another. Upon hearing Annie's input, Jude let his face break into a light smile before he took a chip from his tray. "He wouldn't want to burden someone, naturally, it seems. To avoid all the problems, I would offer the couch in my office, but then I'd have to insist it isn't a problem." He'd been looking to Annie when he spoke, but he glanced to Aiden before turning back to her and matter-of-factly adding. "I am chief surgeon of the trauma ward."

As he had been speaking lightly, he wondered if he should look into the relations between the laboratory employees. It was not his jurisdiction, but if technicians were wasting their work hours being unprofessional then there needed to be punishment for those individuals. Otherwise, it would continue. He would not let his department have these sort of interactions - mostly because their department was dealing with patients right off the ambulance, so there was no time for practical jokes. Reflecting on this, he wondered if that was why his coworkers were very professional and did not relax even in downtime around him.