[New Year’s Eve: Hannah & Jeremiah]
It hadn't felt brave when he'd done it, but maybe it had been. He nodded, accepting her assessment of the situation even if he wouldn't have come to the same one. It had been difficult, the doubts, and the worries, and what it had told him about his mother. He'd sort of idolized her before, and perhaps there'd been a hypocrisy in the sense that he'd never, never been with just one person for any length of time and had almost always operated within open relationships, and never committed, to feel betrayed that his mother had an affair outside of the man he'd thought was h is father. It wasn't fair to her, and it was absurd when he thought about his own behavior, but he was a romantic, and while he'd never committed himself to any one person, he tended to think that probably if he did, he would hold to it. And perhaps that desire to do so had been part of why he hadn't. It would take someone really genuinely special for him to want to hold to that.
Jeremiah drew in a breath. "My Dad, the one I grew up with, I don't hate him. If anything, in some ways, now that it's all come out, it's maybe a little simpler. He knows, I know, and I still have over twenty-years of memories of him. I can't hate him. In a way I think it's kind of the two father's thing. Because my bio dad came through for me, when I really needed someone. I love my Mom, and honestly, I can hardly criticise her when I've never been monogamous with anyone." Except... but that hadn't mattered. He considered the question, and slid over it. If she asked again he would answer, and maybe he would even sometime offer it of its own accord, but he didn't want to ruin the evening with what had been in the past year. Not really. "I saw my siblings over the holidays, they're both in the Seattle area. Ezra works with Dad for his company, Rachel does too."
"What is Jamie like? I spoke with him a bit over the network I think once. But not enough to know him. Is he very like you? Or is he quiet? Did you know him well when you were children?" It was his turn to ask the questions.