Maybe this was for the best. Karma. To have to explain how hard he'd fucked up.

He nodded to the hat, still not meeting her eyes. "We were there. When the -- hollows were -- Parker ran in. Coulda gotten her ass killed but she leaped right in and I --"

He'd stood there and watched while the other Eliot killed the other Hardison. While the other Hardison and the other Parker cut the other Eliot to ribbons. While Parker had to take down her own evil double.

"I didn't."

He took a deep breath.

"So no. It's not what I do. Not today."