That smile and that one simple touch undoes the knot instantly. She smiles back, still a little unsure bit not so ready to abort the entire mission and run off.

"I tried to find you when we went in last," she says, sounding a little rueful. She hated that mission, the necessity of leaving the body parts in order to try and get to him. "I thought that was the only thing you'd recognize that wouldn't make them watch you even closer." As for the other message... she had to make sure he knew. Just in case she never got the chance to say it properly.