She placed her hand over his on her cheek and looked up into his eyes - those sparkling blue eyes she had missed for so long. She had begun to think she would never see them again. Yet there they were, along with the rest of him, in her apartment, and she felt as if she was in a dream she never wanted to wake from.

"They protected me so you wouldn't have to." She understood the way SHIELD worked now, after her experience in the desert. They would do whatever it took to accomplish their mission, even confiscating private property.

"I forgive you. Is the danger over now? Can you stay here?" Can you stay here with me?