"Last I heard he was working the barely legal Disney star circuit, I'm sure he's in heaven," he said with a smirk. It was almost easier to just joke about the bodyguard than really think about the stuff that had occurred as a result.
But apparently she did. He glanced up at the light and wondered for a moment if it had been green long. He mulled over what she said, that she had meant it, that she had never admitted it before. That he wasn't second best, something that had crossed his mind more than once. "Neither were you," he told her, "even if Lily hadn't.... I think we would have found our way to each other still."