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A Man of His Word (David/Don, Don/unknown)
Don gives me his back, two, three times a week. What we have... it's not love. It's barely even sex. Colby asks me, at least once a month, why I don't get out of this farce of a relationship and move on to one where I'm actually loved back. He doesn't get it.
I made a promise to someone, a long time ago, and it's one I intend to keep. And if that means I have to tie Don down and fuck him until he's hoarse screaming a name that isn't mine... well, I can learn to live with that.
Missing the Mark (Ian/Nikki, Colby/Nikki)
Ian's one of the best in the business, whether it comes to hunting people down on shooting them dead. He can track people off the barest bit of debris, read the secrets of the world around him like a child's fairytale, take shots even a Marine scout sniper would balk at. Ian prides himself on his ability to observe, to notice, to see things only a few other people can.
Which is why it's beyond him how he only managed to really see Nikki Betancourt after Colby Granger left his ring on her finger... and his mark on her heart.
Ivory and Gold (Amita/Charlie, Charlie/Colby)
She'd given up all hope of ever being more than Charlie's friend years ago. Known even before he did why his gaze lingered on Colby, why he got even more nervous and disjointed whenever the agent was around. In her own way, she'd even tried to set them up.
She knows how good Charlie and Colby are together, seen how devoted they are to each other in the pictures she asks Larry for.
And yet, the beautifully engraved invitation to the wedding of Charles Eppes and Colby Granger is enough to make Amita cry harder than she has in years.
Where The Heart Is (Coop/Don, Don/Megan)
He stops by L.A. every so often, sometimes on cases, sometimes on vacation, never staying more than a week or two.
Each time, Don asks him to stay, and each time, Coop smiles and leaves without a backward glance, only to return a few months later, needing the shot of blissful domesticity that is the Eppes-Reeves home.
He lets Don believe that he's a wandering man, that he has no interest in a house and a wife and everything else Don holds so dear.
The truth is, he doesn't want a home that doesn't have Don in it.