"I'm sorry," she said.
"So am I," Dimitri said. "But he saved millions of lives. That facility was going to deploy that virus. It would have killed entire cities. James knew that. He walked in there knowing it would probably kill him, and he did it anyway."
Eve's arms came around his neck, holding him close.
"You saved him," she said. "You brought him home. That matters."
"It wasn't enough," Dimitri said, and his voice cracked slightly. "He's still dead."
"I know," Eve said. "But he's not forgotten. And because of what you both did, no one else has to die that way."
They stayed like that for a long time....wrapped around each other in the cooling bathwater, the weight of what he'd done settling between them like a physical presence.
Eventually, the water began to feel cold. Dimitri helped Eve out of the tub and wrapped her in a towel, then pulled another around his own shoulders.
