Luke and Reid stared at each for a few seconds and then Luke broke into an enormous grin.
"Hi!" Luke said enthusiastically.
Reid blinked at him, not quite sure if Luke was an apparition or not.
"Can I come in?" Luke asked.
Reid stepped aside, let Luke enter, and closed the door behind him. He stood stock still just staring at Luke.
After a few seconds he came to his senses and said, "What are you doing here?"
"To see you. What else?"
"You already saw me. You eased your conscience. There was no need to make a house call," Reid said.
Luke smiled at the snarkiness he had missed so much.
"What?" Reid asked, irritated that Luke was smiling.
"I missed you," Luke said quietly.
"Excuse me?"
"I broke up with Noah," Luke said. There was no point in jumping around what he had come here to say. Reid remained staring at him, almost as if he were a zombie.
"I'm sorry," Reid said stiffly, but Luke knew that wasn't true. The subtle change in Reid's eyes when Luke had announced the split told him that.
Luke didn't acknowledge that he knew, however. Instead, he sat down on the couch and said, "Yeah. I realized that I just wasn't in love with him anymore and that I haven't been for a while. There was no spark or excitement left between us. It just felt stagnant and flat. I also realized that I don't feel the need to be a better person when I'm with him."
"So you were bored?" Reid asked, a slight jest in his voice.
"Sort of, yeah."
"Why are you telling me this?" Reid asked, finally moving from in front of the door to in front of Luke and crossing his arms over his chest.
"Because I wanted you to know," Luke said cryptically.
"Why?" Reid asked quietly, his heart beating a mile a minute.
"Because everything that was missing in my relationship with Noah was ever present in my relationship with you," Luke said, standing up.
"And you just realized this now," Reid asked, slight desperation in his voice.
"No. Not really. I've been thinking about it for a while." Luke slowly walked toward Reid, closing the gap between them.
"How long?" Reid whispered. "Because I've been here doing my nerdy science thing. Saving people's lives and doing nothing else. Yelling at people and being the best neurosurgeon in the country."
"Your babbling again," Luke said, practically laughing as his face came within inches of Reid's.
"I know. I still don't know what else to do," Reid mumbled.
Luke smiled at Reid's nerdiness and then lightly placed his lips on Reid's. Reid moaned, wrapped his arms around Luke's waist to pull him closer, and immediately deepened the kiss. It was a rough and frantic kiss because it had been sorely missed for the last three years. After what seemed like several sunlit days, the two men broke apart, both breathing very heavily.
"I love you, Reid. I never should have –" Luke started, but was cut off by Reid's lips attacking his. Luke responded hungrily as Reid hands found his shirt and started unbuttoning it.
Luke broke the contact. "Wait."
"What?" Reid asked, confused. "Please don't tell me you're going back to Noah."
"No. I just thought that we should go to the bedroom." Reid grinned from ear to ear, grabbed Luke's hand, and pulled him towards his bedroom.