"No where else I'd rather be, boss." He turned his head and kissed her temple and let his lips linger there for a moment. While he didn't always want to be stuck immortal he couldn't deny that sometimes he thought himself lucky to have all of them and to love all of them and be loved in return.

"Without you I would have kept sinking." Booker paused a moment as he thought back to where he was when they first arrived in Malta. Hell, the years before that fight after fight, failure on top of failure even though they tried to do good. "Nicky fighting so hard to keep us together after the last job I have to wonder if he saw the same thing you did. How low I was. How bad I'd get on my own."

Misery loves company was a good joke but he did get pretty miserable on his own. "You don't have to save me on your own, at least. You've got backup."