Turned out, Hellboy wasn't big on texting. The buttons were little and he'd rather hear Jill's voice instead of read a bunch of words with letters missing. It took too long for him to pick out the letters on the number pad and he wasn't the most patient person ever anyway (and the truth was he missed her. That was 95% of hating text messaging). He would have called Jill to begin with but she'd sent him the text message and he wasn't sure if she was at work or in a class or something. He didn't want to disturb her but when she said he could call, he dialed her number and waited while it rang. When she answered he greeted her with:

"So how much is Angel going to hate me?"

He sort of felt like he was meeting parents and that was something he'd never had to do. Liz's parents were dead and his other girls had been more of the one night stand variety.