It’s probably a terrible idea, but Sam isn’t thinking all that logical right now. If they both make it out of this, they’ll have to pretend this never happened, to go back to skirting a professional relationship, pretending they don’t have any kind of bond that’d been forged tighter being on the same side of a war neither of them should have to be a part of.

But they are. She’s not a civilian anymore, not after this, and she means too much to him.

When she pulls back from the second kiss, he’s smiling, and he lets go of her hand so he can run it over her hair.

“What’re you thanking me for?”