He has a huge heart that he tends to hide behind a bit of flash and a lot of grumbling, but he's not as tough as he likes to pretend he is. The events of the past couple years probably do have him a lot more standoff-ish but that's only because he really gets hurt easily.

So yes, let's have them meet. He'll most likely go for that Gunner job so if she wanted to tag along, that would be interesting.