Title: Secrets Revealed
Author: Trowa B
Rating: FRT
Notes: Written for comment_fic
Summary: Secrets have a way of getting out.
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It really wasn't how Nate had wanted the rest of the team to find out about their relationship. Moreover, it was far more than he or Eliot would ever have wanted the team to find out about their relationship, but it was out now, no help for it.
And really, what else could he have done? Eliot had been exhausted and in pain, and far, far beyond telling potential ally from foe. He had smashed his way through his captor's bodyguard to escape, even as Nate and the others were preparing to ride to the rescue, along with the help of an undercover cop who had been in the wrong place at the right time.
An undercover cop who had been the first person Eliot had seen after dispatching the place's defenders. The man must not have known what hit him as, when Nate had arrived mere seconds later, Eliot was bouncing back from his trademark headbutt and handily dispatching the man's service pistol and there was the glint of metal as Eliot produced a knife.
Without thinking of the others listening on the comms, Nate pitched his voice just so and snapped, "Eliot! Stop!"
There was a dreadful moment of stillness, Sophie's surprised gasp sounded over the comm., but then Eliot was complying, dropping the knife and dropping to his knees, head bowing as their new associate stared in fascinated horror at the apparent control Nate had over one of the most dangerous men the police force had on their "to-watch" list.