Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are and the things you never want to lose….
Brew pub:
Eliot walks into the back room occupying himself with the business of the menu updates for the pub as Parker and Sophie are mulling about the office. Sophie has the mail in her hands as she passes through the kitchen shuffling through the various envelopes to the last one which is a large manila one addressed to Eliot. Sophie drops the envelope on the counter in front of Eliot. Mail for Eliot is rare and the return address is one she knows. Sophie is curious enough that she wants to witness the unveiling of the contents. Eliot surveys the outside of the envelope. It is from Mack. Eliot opens the envelope with a swipe of a knife from the table dumping the contents onto the table to reveal a stack of pictures. Eliot starts to look through them as curious eyes expect a share. As Eliot shuffles the pictures, a smile crosses his face. The photo he is holding is set in a desert location with a number of very familiar faces. Aria, Mack, Vance, Shelley and Eliot are posed on the hood and front bumper of a utility vehicle. The five are younger, dirty, dusty and smiling back at the camera dressed in their military combat uniforms. Another picture is of the five them at Mack's wedding. Still another is the infamous "paintball" photo of the five of them in paintball gear. The amount of paint on the gear makes them appear more like modern art than the players of a game.
Eliot's eyes return and fix on the photo of all of them in the desert. Unbeknownst to Eliot, Sophie has been standing in the doorway watching him closely. After a few moments, she walks up and leans on the counter next to him. "Hey, there." She gently bumps Eliot's shoulder. "Hey." Eliot's voice reveals a level of distraction. Sophie looks at the pictures scattered about the table. As Sophie spies the pictures, they reveal Eliot at the youngest that Sophie has ever seen him.
"The five of you are quite a crew. From what I saw at the villa, the bond is obviously deep." Eliot turns his attention towards Sophie. "Yeah… we were definitely trouble." Eliot remains transfixed on the photos and films of memories play in his mind.
"So what ever happened to pull you apart?" Sophie gently flips through the moments of Eliot's life. Eliot gets quiet and pensive. "I happened." Sophie reads Eliot's expression for clues. "Somehow, I find that hard to believe." Sophie gets comfortable in a seat. It is going to take some persuasion to get this information from Eliot. "Were you reassigned or something?" "Or something." Eliot is not going to make this easy. "What happened?" Sophie presses him for answers. Now that she has met them her curiosity is peaked. Eliot sits back for a moment. Over time he has grown to trust Sophie, maybe it was time to prove that he trusts Sophie.
