Mikel fights with Eliot twice more and fucks him thrice. The sex is spectacular, the fighting even more so, and she sleeps deeply next to him and doesn't check her morning coffee for poison.
In the shadowy world they both inhabit this practically counts for a white picket fence, but it's obvious he's moving further into the light, both of his hands firmly taken. She's neither jealous nor even envious: you get what you get.
She still checks their contact point every week, and when the message comes one day - lost them need backup please come - she goes.