[ The first and most important immediate step: securing an arm around Parker. She's welcome to the physical anchor as long as she wants it. He'll sit here and let his arm go numb if he has to.
The second step is a little click of realization. It's familiar, overall, Eliot talking about a fire. None of the detail, nothing about the impossible way that this one worked, but-- ]
After you died.
[ It was part of the first conversation they had here, right after Eliot came back. Hardison remembers it less for being something that got mentioned and more for Eliot telling him that he didn't make it out of that one, either.
Why not throw another puzzle piece on the pile, Mathias?
Does it mean something that he saw it? It sure as hell can't be coincidence. ]
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The second step is a little click of realization. It's familiar, overall, Eliot talking about a fire. None of the detail, nothing about the impossible way that this one worked, but-- ]
After you died.
[ It was part of the first conversation they had here, right after Eliot came back. Hardison remembers it less for being something that got mentioned and more for Eliot telling him that he didn't make it out of that one, either.
Why not throw another puzzle piece on the pile, Mathias?
Does it mean something that he saw it? It sure as hell can't be coincidence. ]