"You wanted to be safe. You wanted him to be safe." Noah nodded towards Toby, who was going inside with Peter, along with a chorus line of shopping bags. "Things are different when you're looking at your own safety, and the safety of someone else. We can tolerate a lot for ourselves."
But the lengths they were willing to go to for others... Bennet squeezed her shoulder, glancing at her from the corner of his eye. She knew the lengths he had gone to in order to keep her safe. He knew she wouldn't need the explanation.
"If it came down to it again, Claire... if it was a matter of pulling the trigger, or letting someone else be hurt. Could you do it again?" Direct, even, serious. There was no warmth in that inquiry, and there shouldn't have been. This was no light topic. This was life and death.