[ Eli flinches, rubbing his face and looking very put out. ]

You wouldn't have me any other way.

[ He smiles, hiding the question in his statement. He wants things to be normal. To be okay. Messing with each other was normal, right? They'll have to find out what the word means again. ]

And in any case... You know me. Why ask when I can discover things for myself by hacking into every database on earth? Unless you have anything else you'd like to tell me, I can figure this out for myself.

[ He's definitely gonna find out Hank and Gavin are mated before either of them do. ]