Having gotten to know Magnus better by now, it doesn't retroactively come as much of a surprise to Reid, either. Magnus seems to take a certain pleasure in showering attention over those who don't particularly seek it, though he hardly discriminates against those who do. Ultimately, the flirtation is harmless, enough so that it'd only made Luke roll his eyes and clearly doesn't offend Alec in the slightest to be told about it.
His smile does flicker, though, when Alec alludes to that other version of Darrow they'd ended up in, and he swallows hard as he turns back to the coffee. That'd been a difficult time for all of them, and it'd taken him longer than he would have liked to feel like he was... recovered from the experience. It doesn't haunt him as often anymore, for which he's grateful, but even thinking about it puts a bad taste in his mouth. So he tries to put it back out of his mind and forces his smile wider, perhaps even a bit unnaturally so, as he holds one of the coffee mugs out to Alec.
"Maybe 'type' isn't the right word for it," he says. "There's cream in the fridge, by the way. I've never really sought out any one particular kind of person in particular. Granted, I never really sought out anyone at all. The relationships I've been in, they all just... fell into place at the time. Luke and I did have to work a little harder to convince ourselves being more than friends wouldn't ruin anything between us but even then, it became so easy after we finally admitted how we felt about each other."
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His smile does flicker, though, when Alec alludes to that other version of Darrow they'd ended up in, and he swallows hard as he turns back to the coffee. That'd been a difficult time for all of them, and it'd taken him longer than he would have liked to feel like he was... recovered from the experience. It doesn't haunt him as often anymore, for which he's grateful, but even thinking about it puts a bad taste in his mouth. So he tries to put it back out of his mind and forces his smile wider, perhaps even a bit unnaturally so, as he holds one of the coffee mugs out to Alec.
"Maybe 'type' isn't the right word for it," he says. "There's cream in the fridge, by the way. I've never really sought out any one particular kind of person in particular. Granted, I never really sought out anyone at all. The relationships I've been in, they all just... fell into place at the time. Luke and I did have to work a little harder to convince ourselves being more than friends wouldn't ruin anything between us but even then, it became so easy after we finally admitted how we felt about each other."