She'd had to process it first. Figure out if she was ready to forgive him, after seeing that. After seeing Hardison, under the water far too long, nearly drowning.
But in the end, there hadn't really been a question. They're a team - Team Leverage, but the three of them, especially. There's no one else in the world she trusts as much as she trusts the two of them. And she knows Eliot, understands him on a level she doesn't even really understand Hardison, as much as she loves him. She knows how seriously he takes his self-imposed duty of protecting them. She knows he'd never, ever put them in harm's way unless there was no other way. Knows he'd die before he let anything happen to them.
She hangs on to him for a long time, longer than either of them would normally be comfortable with, before finally, reluctantly letting go. When she does, she just looks at him for a moment, trying to think of what she can say. How she can make things a little better.
There isn't really a question about that either, in the end.
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But in the end, there hadn't really been a question. They're a team - Team Leverage, but the three of them, especially. There's no one else in the world she trusts as much as she trusts the two of them. And she knows Eliot, understands him on a level she doesn't even really understand Hardison, as much as she loves him. She knows how seriously he takes his self-imposed duty of protecting them. She knows he'd never, ever put them in harm's way unless there was no other way. Knows he'd die before he let anything happen to them.
She hangs on to him for a long time, longer than either of them would normally be comfortable with, before finally, reluctantly letting go. When she does, she just looks at him for a moment, trying to think of what she can say. How she can make things a little better.
There isn't really a question about that either, in the end.
"Can you make me a sandwich?"