It never crossed Eli's mind to ever leave Shannon mostly because of how much he loves the man and that he wants to stay with him as long as he's allowed to. He was just waiting for the other shoe to drop and Shannon deciding that the relationship wasn't going to work out and thus leave. That was one of the biggest fears he had when it came to them dating and one he figured would inevitably happen because Shannon was straight. It was only a matter of time, he believed, and was expecting it even if it would never happen.

"We can stay like this for now." There was no acknowledgement of the first part of what Shannon said, Eli preferring to skip over it thanks to all of his issues that seemed to be coming out in full force right now. "We'll eventually have the face the world, but right nor it's just us."