"You're always welcome," Luke says, because although he doesn't think the words need to be spoken aloud for Alec to know it, he wants to be sure there's never any doubt in Alec's mind that he's welcome with Luke and Reid. No matter what the circumstance, no matter what he needs, he's welcome here.

"I hope you know that already, but if you don't, I'm telling you now. Whenever you might need, you're always welcome here. We've the room and even if we didn't, we'd make room." After the time they've spent together, he hopes it would be obvious, but given the things he'd heard Maryse say to Alec in that other version of Darrow, Luke doesn't ever want to take that for granted.