That was when he knew, more than anything else he had ever known in his life, that being who he was and doing what he did meant more to him than anything else ever could. He watched his two brothers pull the toddler from his arms, lifting her from the hole he had barely managed to get down himself. She'd been brave, she'd trusted him. Gordon got her in his arms, Scott yelling and afraid. Saving her precious life even as he was sucked down. Seeing their heroism as his last vision, dying securely in the knowledge of his own.