It wasn't much of a secret that Shannon didn't know what to do with Thomas. It was hard to get much of a bead on the guy. He did, however, know that Thomas had the power to do something if he felt Shannon wasn't taking care of his son. It wasn't a scary prospect so much as a reminder that he really needed to get his shit together if they were going to go talk to Thomas. "Of course it won't," he said mildly.

While part of him was distressed to hear that it was most definitely himself who had set something on fire, another part of him simply reacted to hearing Matheus' voice. He knew Matheus was all right now and that worry had been set aside for now. "Do you just not know how to knock?" Perhaps not the best greeting, but he was still wound up from dealing with Eli and trying to calm him down, not to mention his own experience of becoming a jumbled mess.