[Given the circumstances. It makes him want to laugh at the phrasing, it's so terribly British of her to say so.]

Given the circumstances. Very well, Claire. If we are to die together on this day, it's just as well we do so as close to friends as we might hope to become.

[He flicks her a crooked smile. He honestly doesn't know how close to friends they'd come, in her timeline, seeing as how he hadn't gotten the chance to live it yet. He's going to assume it hadn't been too far, given some of the looks she still gives him at times.]

And you may call me John.