The next morning rays of sunlight came through the window and gently illuminated the bed on which Reid and Luke were tangled up in each other, Reid's arm slung across Luke's waist, holding him close as if he were afraid the younger man would vanish if he let go. The sun hit Reid's face and the doctor blinked as he opened his eyes.

He lifted his head slightly off the pillow and smiled at the blonde man who was sleeping next to him. It had been a long since he had felt this peaceful and happy. It was a wonderful feeling to have him back in his bed.

Reid gently kissed the nape of Luke's neck. Luke smiled faintly and opened his eyes. The blonde shifted in Reid's arms so that he could turn around and face the older man.

"Good morning," Reid said, smiling.

"Hi," Luke said, smiling completely and stretching his neck up to kiss Reid on the lips. "Do you have work today?"

"I just happen to be off today," Reid said, putting his head back down on the pillow.

"Good," Luke said, snuggling up to Reid, placing his head in the crook of Reid's neck, and his arm around Reid's waist. "Let's never move."

"Why did it take you three years to come find me?" Reid asked, gently running his fingers up and down Luke's arm.

Luke's mouth twitched. "I don't know. I guess…I guess I thought that the longer I went, the more I would be able to convince myself that I had made the right choice. That was stupid. The longer I went, the more I couldn't stop thinking about you and what we had together. Especially what we could have had."

"Would you have sought me out if you hadn't come here for the festival?" Reid asked.

Luke looked at Reid. "Probably not," Luke answered honestly. Reid frowned. "But I'm incredibly glad that we did come here," Luke said, assuring Reid that he was here to stay. "It's like it was fate."

"Fate?" Reid asked skeptically. "Fate is for insecure fools who can't make up their minds about things."

"So I'm an insecure fool?" Luke asked, but he smiled at the brash life lessons that he had missed so much.

Reid smirked and said, "No…not completely. You at least came to your senses. Better late than never."

Luke shook his head and repositioned himself so that it rested on the doctor's chest.

"You know, I wasn't sure you'd be here waiting," Luke said.

Reid looked down at Luke. "I never stopped loving you, Luke. I thought that when I came back here after you left me that I would be able to box up whatever feelings I had for you and go on with my life as if they had never existed or were some distant memory. I realized all too soon that what I felt for you was too real and too deep to ever go away."

Luke lightly brushed his lips against Reid's. "I feel like an idiot. I stayed with Noah for three years when I knew in the deepest parts of my heart that the one I really, truly loved was you. And I hurt you in the process. But…" Luke faltered.

"But what?"

"But…but I'm here to stay. If you want me to," Luke said, looking at Reid.

Reid did not respond but kissed Luke instead. "I want you with me always."

Luke smiled. "Well, now that that's cleared up, I'm starving." He sat up, as did Reid.

"Lucky for you, I've spent many years being hungry. So I know how to make breakfast. But you already knew that," Reid said with a cheeky grin, getting out of bed and throwing on a pair of Harvard sweat pants. Luke chuckled as Reid left the room.

Luke jumped out of bed, found a pair of scrub bottoms that Reid had left lying on a chair, and slipped into them, since he did not want to put on his jeans this early in the morning when he wasn't going anywhere. Oh, how I've missed these, Luke thought to himself as he left the bedroom.

When Luke entered the kitchen he found Reid standing over the stove making scrambled eggs and delicious smelling bacon. Luke smiled. How much he had craved this kind of morning with Noah. Luke walked over to Reid and wrapped his arms around the doctor's waist.

"That smells delicious," Luke said, kissing Reid's neck.

"And it should taste delicious too," Reid said, taking the pan off the stove and walking over to the table. He scooped some eggs and bacon onto each of two plates.

"From what I remember, it will be," Luke said, picking up his fork and immediately shoveling eggs into his mouth. "Mmmm." They were wonderful. "Delicious, as I knew they would be." Reid grinned through his mouthful of eggs and bacon.

"Thank you for the breakfast," Luke said, shifting his chair closer to Reid and kissing him.

"You don't need to thank me," Reid said. "You'd do it for me."

"Of course. But after the way I treated you, you have no reason to be this nice to me."

Reid stroked Luke's cheek. "I couldn't be mean to you if I tried. Not intentionally, anyway. Rude, maybe. But not mean or cruel."

"I love you," Luke said.

"I love you, too," Reid said, kissing Luke. "Okay. Enough mushy, feelings talk. What do you want to do today?"

Luke smiled mischievously as his eyes twinkled. He said, "I have a few ideas" and he crushed his lips against Reid's.