Hardison nudged him. "You know what I like?" he said quietly. "That there's a whole bunch of realities out there with various kids who all know you an' love you as their grandpa, complete with holidays an' visits and all that."

God knows, Ada and Spike didn't have that. Wouldn't, probably, even if Eliot's father had still been alive.

"You ain't just their granddad cause you adopted their mom. You earned bein' their granddad."