Despite the ever present threat Thomas held over Shannon's head about what would happen if he wasn't taking care of Eli, he wouldn't do something that would upset Eli. After what happened when Eli was a child, Thomas had started to be more cautious about how he dealt with his son and the people who were in his life. He may not like the fact that Eli was dating a fire Aspect, but he wouldn't do anything to separate them. If it happened involving things not under his control, then he'd take advantage of it, but never would cause trouble on his own.

"I usually don't need to! I didn't think I was going to be walking in on that," Matheus said with a tone that made it obvious that he wasn't exactly happy that he had walked in on them at all. There are just some things you don't need to know about your friends and that was definitely one of them in his mind. "And if you didn't want to be walked in on, you should have been doing that in the bedroom."