[ And that makes it all click into place more solidly, suddenly understanding the context of what brought this all up. The reminder of what... wasn't. Who hadn't been waiting there tonight for Klaus.
It's a validation that he hadn't actually been expecting to receive. Allison hadn't even heard what he'd said to her then, the words tripping over themselves in their rush to get out, to be unleashed, a years- and decades-long river that had finally burst its banks and gone roiling across the landscape, a flurry of words and emotions where Luther was normally stoic reserve. Confessing everything.
And she hadn't heard it.
But he hadn't even meant for her to hear it. ]
'You're welcome' doesn't really fit, here.
[ Because it'd be like thanking him for breathing. ]
But I'm glad I was there, too. And that you came back to me.
[ That's probably toeing a line, possibly giving away too much — the safer thing would've been to say came back or came back to us — but Luther can't lie in this, either. ]
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It's a validation that he hadn't actually been expecting to receive. Allison hadn't even heard what he'd said to her then, the words tripping over themselves in their rush to get out, to be unleashed, a years- and decades-long river that had finally burst its banks and gone roiling across the landscape, a flurry of words and emotions where Luther was normally stoic reserve. Confessing everything.
And she hadn't heard it.
But he hadn't even meant for her to hear it. ]
'You're welcome' doesn't really fit, here.
[ Because it'd be like thanking him for breathing. ]
But I'm glad I was there, too. And that you came back to me.
[ That's probably toeing a line, possibly giving away too much — the safer thing would've been to say came back or came back to us — but Luther can't lie in this, either. ]