Eliot wasn't wrong when he said Nate needed this. Nate does need this. Nate needs something else to think about other than all the reasons for another drink.
So now he has something. Now he has a family again. Something to think about. But that something to think about has turned out to be the shape of Eliot's shoulders and the fall of his hair. The way his bracelets slide on his wrists when he wraps his hand around his Leverage, Inc. coffee mug.
Nate catalogs Eliot's movements like he's sizing him up for a fight, or a mark. He reads volumes of new meaning into the way Eliot tosses his hair out of his face when both his hands are occupied. He dissects the significance of the fact that Eliot moves like a coiled spring in the downtimes and like a hunting cat when they're on the job. Trying to get inside his head the way he approaches any job.
Trying to see if maybe, after trusting his new family with everything he has left, he can trust Eliot with this, too.
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So now he has something. Now he has a family again. Something to think about. But that something to think about has turned out to be the shape of Eliot's shoulders and the fall of his hair. The way his bracelets slide on his wrists when he wraps his hand around his Leverage, Inc. coffee mug.
Nate catalogs Eliot's movements like he's sizing him up for a fight, or a mark. He reads volumes of new meaning into the way Eliot tosses his hair out of his face when both his hands are occupied. He dissects the significance of the fact that Eliot moves like a coiled spring in the downtimes and like a hunting cat when they're on the job. Trying to get inside his head the way he approaches any job.
Trying to see if maybe, after trusting his new family with everything he has left, he can trust Eliot with this, too.