Re: Sam/Sean
Sam nodded. "The good kind of trouble, but I have a feeling that you'll be a handful, now." Going to a museum alone was a logistic nightmare, and by alone he meant with the team. "I don't know, Sean. Even family, it means six people, and I'll have to see the museum, look at blue prints, get security specs, find ways to get our guns in if they are in areas with metal detectors. Maybe pick a few museums so if anyone is looking at our internet habits they won't know where we're going. Just give me some time and I have to run it by G as well."
He wished that it was that simple. "Sean, baby, I can teach you everything and you can learn everything, but that sense of paranoia that's built over decades isn't something that you'll develop in a few weeks. I'm not sure I even want you to. Actually, I know I don't want you to. When we started training Savannah, she decided that she was going to be 'just like G', and that just about killed G, because this isn't a life you want for your children, never trusting anyone, never letting your guard down. We do this so others don't have to, so you don't have to, and I know you won't turn into me, because I won't let you and because of who you are, the trade off is that your judgement will always be a little more lenient than mine, but I'll trust you and you try to err on the side of caution, okay?"
Sam snorted. "Don't you tell that to G. He might just reconsider his profession, considering that Savannah knew, or guessed, before him, and now you. I never told him when we were home; it's not something else that I kept from you. I just never thought it should happen. He's my boss. He probably wouldn't know if we were still there." He rubbed the nape of his neck. "Some days I wonder if coming here wasn't actually better than staying there. Sure, it's boring and no one has tried to kill us in five and a half months, but I have my family here. The strangest family possible with a partner, his adopted kid, her boyfriend, my two kids, and two dogs, but still a family," he said chuckling. "Your mother would laugh so hard if she saw me now. She kept telling me that one day I'd have to settle down and I said that it would never happen. Ever. Your mom is one smart woman."