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‘Did we do a good job, John?’ Moira asked, looking at David, swaying in Patrick’s arms in the middle of the dance floor.
‘I think we raised an excellent son,’ Johnny said, putting his arm around his wife. A lot of that raising may have happened in the last five years, but it didn’t matter. Not anymore.
‘I always worried about him,’ Moira admitted.
‘He did say he never expected to find happiness,’ Johnny replied, thinking back to a time when David had been sure he would never be happy, that he would always be alone.
‘No. I knew he’d always find his happiness. Eventually. I just worried about how he would get there,’ Moira said, thinking back to the years before they came to Schitt’s Creek.
‘He certainly looks happy now. Full of love,’ Johnny said, looking as David laughed at something Patrick said.
‘That was always his problem,’ Moira commented, ‘he always loved too much. Put his love in the wrong hands. His ability to love was always grander than he realised.’
‘He’s put his heart in safe hands now,’ Johnny said.
‘He’s quite a man,’ Moira said.
‘They both are,’ Johnny replied. He knew what it was like to love someone like David. He knew the work it took some days, and the concessions that had to be made over the oddest things, but he also knew that even on the hardest day, it was the best honour in the world.
‘Sweet Patrick,’ Moira said, almost in contemplation about their new son-in-law, ‘I couldn’t think of anyone more worthy of our son.’
‘They make quite a pair don’t they?’ Johnny said. By then the music had slowed, Patrick ran his fingers through the hair at the back of David’s head, pulling him in close to kiss him gently before whispering something to David and pulling him into a tight embrace.
Moira nodded, feeling lost for words for the second time that day. They stood in silence watching the newly married couple dance, swaying together slowly.
When another song started Moira found her voice.
‘I think I’m going to go dance with my son-in-law,’ Moira said stepping onto the dance floor.
It didn’t take long once Moira had interrupted and started dancing with Patrick that Marcy started to dance with David.
Clint approached Johnny with a drink. They sat and watched their families. Their family. Now merged through two incredible men, who would lead incredible lives.