He might be in pain, but there's probably no one else in any galaxy that could get Kaidan to lay on the floor like this. It's not exactly dignified, but he and Shepard have been to hell and new worlds together. Dignity got left somewhere back on Eden Prime.

"Yes, ma'am," he murmurs, easing to the ground. She's warm and - safe isn't the right word, exactly, because Alice Shepard is a walking disaster, but he trusts her. Implicitly.