“Oh thank Christ,” he murmurs, and Miranda gives him a horrified look.“What the hell are you talking about?” Thomas’ voice, sharp and frightened, comes from next to James, and Hennessey meets his eyes.“I am thanking God Almighty that I am not walking into this cabin to find either one of you suddenly dying,” Hennessey answers crisply. James gives him an incredulous look. “Breathe, boy,” Hennessey instructs.

From Full of Grace:

So, when I wrote this, I distinctly remember thinking “oops, I suppose having Hennessey walk in, find James breathing like he’s about to die, and saying, “oh thank God” is probably something Thomas would find a bit off/be rather less than happy about.” At this point in this story, Thomas and Hennessey are better friends than they were, but if you recall, Thomas did say at one point earlier that Hennessey would make right what he had said to James and Thomas still doesn’t trust that Hennessey won’t repeat what he sees as his previous mistakes re: James. Hennessey, meanwhile, is tired as hell, coming down off of an adrenaline rush, and now he’s just relieved that this isn’t anything worse than what it is. Miranda, meanwhile, is focused entirely on James, and probably doesn’t really even register this exchange much because she’s just as tired as Hennessey, and just wants whatever this is fixed so that they can all get some sleep as a start on fixing things. James, of course, is occupied with “wtf do you mean I’m not dying, I can’t fucking breathe.” I hadn’t intended to have this section in there at all, actually, but the characters wanted to angst a bit, so… *shrugs* I do what they say. In a larger sense, I suppose this moment is where they all start to function as a family unit instead of being distinct parts/teams that have been split off.