John had never really loved anyone, to be honest.
There was his mother and father, and his little sister, and that one girl a few summers ago, but love hadn't truly ever touched his life, not like it had touched Red and Liz-even Abe, apparently. And there wasn't much love in Antarctica, anyway.
But what was love? Well, that was a whole different story.
Being an agent of the B.P.R.D hadn't left too much room for soft spots, but John Myers thought that a soft spot was what you needed to get the job done, to discern from good and evil, right and wrong. To fire at some monstrous creature because it was monstrous, or to fire at it because it was attacking you-that was heart, kindness, a soft spot.
That soft spot made John want to comfort Liz, made him want to befriend this girl who seemed so lost within herself, and that same soft spot made him let her go. She'd needed love, and had found it with Red, and for all of Red's bad days, John knew that he was a good person, inside and out. And love wasn't judgmental, after all. Love didn't look at you and care about what it saw, it didn't get to know you and turn away because of it. Love was powerful, and kind, and caring, and it didn't judge a book by its cover. Love was strong, even unbreakable, that John knew from the many couples he had seen walking down the street.
And he knew that love could transcend anything, be it time or death or anything else the world could throw at it, because if it could touch Liz and make her smile, and touch Red and make him sacrifice everything, and touch Abe and make him think in a whole different way, then love was worth it all.
And wasn't that the most important thing? For love to be worth any sacrifice, any cost, any hardship?
Myers, though shivering a bit in the cold, smiled, despite his situation, because two penguins were huddled together, backs against the wind, their beaks touching and making a small heart shape. He smiled at them, laughter bubbling up in his throat, because that, be it with penguins or people, was what love truly was.
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