Hope let him wrap her up in his arms, then snaked her arms around him and held him tightly. She might be a tough, opinionated chick on the outside (and the inside) but sometimes she just wanted the comfort of someone she knew, and cared about.
Her eyes closed and she breathed him in. "It'll make this a whole lot easier. Just think of how many days in jail I'll be saving you from." she smirked a touch, but then, added seriously, "I'll help you through all that, and all this. It was a lot to handle." and she'd been dead half the time. She still had feelings on that.