Heartwarming / The Secret Return of Alex Mack

• In the middle of a fight with Bane in chapter 97, Hanna realizes she's going to have bruises the next day, and realizes that she'll have to hide them to avoid Janet worrying about her. Though Hanna does realize she likes that.
  She would have to wear something frilly and long-sleeved for the next day or two, so Janet would not spot all of them, or else there would be a lot of fussing and unnecessary pampering, which admittedly made her feel warm inside.
• Charlie McGee has spent the past two out of her eight and half years on the run or captured and has seen both her parents murdered. An hour after the SRI finds her, she has four different people offering to adopt her.
  • The conversation on family:
    Hanna: After my father died and I was shot, Terawatt rescued me, and Colonel Jack’s people got me surgery to make me well again, and then one of his doctors took me to her house, and now she’s my mother.
    Charlie: I’d like to have a mommy again, even if she’s not my real mommy.
    Alex: Having a mom is the best thing ever.
• Azure Crush is definitely not the nicest person, but she demands to be let in on the beach op, because she's been homeless herself and feels they have it tough enough without having to worry about being eaten by monsters.
• When introducing Alex to her mentor at Corcoran College, several SRI members are present, and make it clear that if Frank doesn't protect her secret identity, they will put him through a world of pain.
  Frank: When you said the biggest secret on the planet, you weren’t kidding, were you?
  Jack: Nope.
  Alex: And we really, really need you to keep my secret, because Danielle Atron knows where I live, and where my parents live, and my big sister, and my boyfriend, and a lot of my friends. My dad and my sister used to work for her at Paradise Valley Chemical. And she would totally kill everyone I ever knew to get even with us for putting her in prison.
  Willow: And we all love Alex, so we would be very, very angry at you if you spilled her secret, and very bad things would happen to you.
  Jack: And while bad electronic things would happen to you courtesy of Willow, that’s nothing compared to what I would do to you personally. And I mean that in a really terrifying Hannibal Lecter kind of way.
  Graham: And I’d be right behind him in line.
  Sergeant Scott: And me too. As would probably every single field person in the SRI on any team she’s worked with. And most of Italy, England, Finland, Russia, Japan, and South Korea.