Lucy, on the windy road of navigating friendship and something more with Gray. After all, it's the little moments that count. Lucy/Gray.

Juliana learns to meditate. She walks many twisted paths, but throughout them all there is a face that haunts her. Fate is fluid, and she is barely scratching the surface.

Petra learns to live in a world without Bean. Sometimes the hardest thing is learning how to let go of the past, how to find your way forward. Peter/Petra, post Shadow of the Giant.

"It's the life that was stolen from you. The life you could have had with her. It's the finality of it, understanding that whatever remnants you had are gone forever." Natasha's voice is even and sure, and the knowledge that she came for him, that something has indefinably shifted between the two of them, is something he didn't expect to be grateful for. Steve/Natasha friendship.

They work together seamlessly, operate in such fluid tandem in the field and in the office, undercover and during operations, that it makes perfect sense they would fit together here, like this. Callen/Kensi.

They move like ghosts through city after city, day after day, and Marta learns to look ahead. She's made her choice, forty-two days ago when she looked into Aaron's eyes and took a burning match from his outstretched hands.

He's missed all these things while on the hunt in Japan, chasing down a ghost, and he suspects what choosing to leave this time has cost him. Post 2x22 Ua Hopu, Steve/Kono friendship.

Sometimes you cross lines that you can't go back. Three times Steve crosses those lines and how he finds his way home, with a little help from Kono.

Sometimes it's the small things that cause a fundamental shift. Kono comes to a realization while Steve is away.