"You're not going to lose me," he answered confidently not simply stating so but truly believing it. Oh, he knew precisely how helpless they truly were. He -- and likely Belle as well -- had been taken without a fight, and Coop was not a man who gave in easily. On the Island, there was even less they could do to fight their captors -- this was, after all, a sort of prison for them...
But he also knew it would also drive them crazy if they thought about it and nothing else. And he certainly didn't want to talk about it.
"No matter what happens, we'll get through this together. And I love you. You know that."