It's not much, but it's something. As Cole stabilizes, Desmond exhales -- 'as hard as he can' for Cole really only means a tickle of pressure, nothing like the strangely tangible weight he'd had on the rooftop, but it's something.

"Yeah," he says with some relief. "There you go. That's better, right?" Tentatively, and awkwardly -- the Miles family was never much for physical affection when Desmond was growing up, and that's only gotten worse over time -- he gives Cole's hands a gentle squeeze back.