I also wonder if his "I always wanted this" is true or something imposed on him from outside.
Erin's hair snapped back to her current style when she finally woke up and (let's hope) kneed Aiken in the balls in 818. Aiken's hair is back to his current style now, and his facial hair is sadly back too (although it would be nice to think she just kneed him so hard that his pubic hair ended up on his face).
I
hope it isn't the case that he has also regained his senses now and is simply fooling Cherry into believing he's going along with this. I'm
inclined to think it probably isn't. I'm
inclined to think I'm just supposed to think it might be. So I'm just ticking that box. As I've said before,
something's got to happen here.
(There's something nice about putting
inclined in italics.)