[If this'd just been after their first meeting, he would have sassed her about volunteering for the position. But as it is, there's just a pause as he waffles and discards the flirt: not only are they on shaky ground, it'd be tonally dissonant.]

Not... not really an approach I've tried. I think I'd end up worrying about being disruptive to whoever volunteered for the position. I mean, it's bad enough I wake myself up, much less anyone else.

[Ugh, he feels another stab of shame at waking her again.]