he's also forty, which...how? yes, that's perfect! the timeline works and everything. bond over some art, maybe have a drink or two, and a brief fling turns into dinner turns into a few more dates turns into...how the hell have we been together for x months now? we can go with something under a year so that it's not too serious. maybe six or seven months? i'm open to how it ends, whether mutually or chaotically, but i imagine he's something like jake peralta in that he kind of jokes about his feelings but then leans into them pretty hard once they're out there.