Eames wasn't sure what answer he'd been expecting from Arthur but this wasn't it. He knew when. He was naming a job, what Eames had been wearing. All of it shocked him more than he would have thought it would.

"We nearly died then," he murmured softly. "Least I thought you were going to." That admission hurt. He'd been so afraid then. "I was scared shitless I would lose you. Then I got panicked, about how I felt about you."