[He chuckles.] Yeah, surprisingly, after all this time, it's still not an area I'm that good in either, but yeah, it seems to be working so far!
[And he gets where Gaeta is with all this. Hell knows, he's been there - spent most of his life there, if he's honest. Which is why all this is so difficult and unfamiliar for him.
On the other hand, he's extremely practised at making casual, no-strings relationship work and therefore finds nothing at all awkward about interacting with Gaeta in such a way. And it meant a lot to him that Gaeta gave him that, in that semi-fictional future.]
I wanted to thank you, you know. I know that future wasn't real, but what we did on that one day was, and I appreciated you being there for me, that day.