For Parker, this sort of thing was the promise at the end of a very long rainbow. It was the promise that after she'd graduate her inmate she'd have this. She'd get her chance to punch the Admiral, Thomas Gates would be alive with his nice girl and Parker would take off in a sports car and find him and they'd get started on what the two of them should have been doing for the last four years.

Too bad she needed to die (twice) before she could have figured out that he was what she wanted. That this was what she wanted.

Later, she'd pretend she had a Sydney here and she'd analyze the dream, and Parker would decide it happened because she needed something to keep her going when she wanted to get the hell out of Dodge. But for now she just kept kissing him, her arms coming up to wrap around his neck.