"Agent Connecticut," he sighs "for better or worse we are a family."

There, he said it out loud. It's what he's always thought, and it's not like the agents necessarily disagreed. Hell, in some cases it was literally true, like for the Dakota twins looking out for each other or Agent Carolina following the rules set by her father.

Of course, the Director absolutely refused to address the project as such, and Price had to pretend that the family dynamics that inevitably formed were just part of a plan designed to make the environment toxic, but it was a family to him. Staying on the MOI whenever the agents were on shore leave and looking forward to them coming back wasn't just prompted by boredom.

"It's perfectly normal that I show interest about your well-being."