Hardison:

I moved from house to house for years until I finally ended up at my Nana's.

It was a hard thing for me as a child to realize that from the moment I could walk, I wasn't wanted or that I was an inconvenience. In that situation, you either deal with it two ways. You shut down or you shut out.

I shut out, my world became technology, and in that world I became a Mastermind. For a long time, I used hacking to escape loneliness. In a digital world, you always have some new friends trying to learn your tricks or some new foe to try to break into your world.

There was a point when I thought I would die alone with one hand on a terminal. I was okay with it, because I knew that whatever mark I made in history, at least I made some kind of contribution good or bad. I wanted someone to see me as something more than an inconvenience. I wanted someone, anyone to acknowledge that I existed. So, I breached bigger and bigger marks, took down larger and larger infrastructures.

Then I hooked up with Nate and the others, and just like that moment when I met my Nana for the first time, I felt a sense of home. And just like that, I am able to quiet that little boy inside me that always has his suitcases packed and ready to go.

For the first time in my life I've found love with a woman who knows exactly how I felt as a lonely child, because she was one herself. This woman unmakes who I was and recreates me into someone who wants to plant roots. She makes my fear of having to dust off that suitcase disappear because I have her. She is my home.

So, when I look into her eyes and I tell her that I can't lose her. I'm not only telling her that I love her and that I can't live without her, I'm letting her know that she is me. And I can't ever lose that.

Ever.