Eliot stands perfectly still, shocked into silence, while Parker shares a smirk with Hardison.

The kiss has been unexpected, shocking, the touch of Parker’s lips on one corner of his mouth and Hardison’s on the other; now they wait for his reaction, his decision.

Eventually, after a moment that seems like a lifetime, Eliot slides one arm around each of them and pulls them closer, tightly against him as if he's never going to let them go.