Reid doesn't have to know the details to feel confident saying that. He'd thought for a time that he was in love with Ethan, that he could see a real future with him. Reid had been much younger then and blindly optimistic that a man who wouldn't commit to a relationship even after a year of being together, a man who was so uncomfortable in his own skin that he didn't even want to hold hands in public, would be the best fit for him. It'd taken almost ten years to find the person who really was; but Maeve had been taken from him, and Reid had come to the conclusion that love probably just wasn't for him.
If not for Darrow, if not for meeting a certain someone in front of a coffee shop on his first day here, Reid would still be alone. He wouldn't have considered it a bad thing, it'd been something he accepted, but he's happier now that he isn't.
"Everything we go through is a learning experience," Reid continues, "whether we like it or not. Those experiences are what have shaped us, we wouldn't be the people we are now without them, and sometimes it can seem like the bad outweighs the good but... Here we are. I'm happy now. With Luke, with you and Isabelle and Magnus and all of you in my life, I'm happy. Are you?"
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Reid doesn't have to know the details to feel confident saying that. He'd thought for a time that he was in love with Ethan, that he could see a real future with him. Reid had been much younger then and blindly optimistic that a man who wouldn't commit to a relationship even after a year of being together, a man who was so uncomfortable in his own skin that he didn't even want to hold hands in public, would be the best fit for him. It'd taken almost ten years to find the person who really was; but Maeve had been taken from him, and Reid had come to the conclusion that love probably just wasn't for him.
If not for Darrow, if not for meeting a certain someone in front of a coffee shop on his first day here, Reid would still be alone. He wouldn't have considered it a bad thing, it'd been something he accepted, but he's happier now that he isn't.
"Everything we go through is a learning experience," Reid continues, "whether we like it or not. Those experiences are what have shaped us, we wouldn't be the people we are now without them, and sometimes it can seem like the bad outweighs the good but... Here we are. I'm happy now. With Luke, with you and Isabelle and Magnus and all of you in my life, I'm happy. Are you?"