** Eli **
Eli didn't mean to laugh, and he hoped that Harper wouldn't interpret it as he was laughing at her. But he couldn't help it — she was simply too adorable like this, going between screaming "no no no no no no no" and wailing unintelligible gibberish and shrieking an ensemble of colorful expletives that he had never heard her use before.
But she was laughing too, in an adrenaline-filled and give-no-shit kind of way.
Eli turned to look at her. It was a little tricky to focus his vision, with the world going upside-down and sideways all around them, but he still managed to catch a good glimpse of her eyes squeezed tightly shut, mouth open in a wild shrill. His own grin stretched wider. Yep, that was totally Harper's terrified-but-totally-having-a-blast face, exactly the same one that he remembered from all those years ago, and he loved it.
