<33 Happy New Year!
It's the type of answer he expects from her. It's why he's with her. It's exactly why he wants to marry her and have her bare his children (plural totally) but sometimes he isn't exactly sure if she means it wholeheartedly. He has to step back and try to decide if he would do the same.
Would Nate let Bunny Dolan go with a known group of raiders in a suicide mission to get one of her brothers back?
It's not an answer that comes just like that for him. He sits there on his sore bum, staring at her, thinking long and hard.
Would he help her? Would he let her take the reins on a special project in the midst of it, something that could be important but might not amount to anything at all. Would he let her risk life and limb for this?
He nods. He thinks he would. That he'd have to, because just like him, he knows she wouldn't ask permission. She would do it and if he was part of her then he would do everything in his power to make her happy.
"Alright. I guess we're just waiting in the wings then...." he sighs.