We're of the age where we wake up and we want the memories we have from the night before.

( Or, from before that, especially when he and Melissa are separated for months at a time. It's unconventional, but they both respect each other and the work they do. They also have their own son and daughter to think of.

It works for them.

Next to them, one of the younger recruits receives a jolt from the mistletoe above them and he snaps his hand back.

"Hm, they really do work," a girl he'd put his hands on says, smirking.

"You wanted to test them out," he says, shaking his hand. "I think it's going numb."

The girl laughs, Chris looks back at Melissa. )

Apparently, we have to keep things above board under the mistletoe.