"I wanted to come and see how you were faring," he answers, which is more or less the truth. "I heard about your accident and assumed your husband might not appreciate if I were to show up with flowers and wishes for you to get well, so I gave it a little time before coming to visit. I decided to skip the flowers in the end."
And in his own odd way, he does care how Reid is doing, is he's healing properly. In Darrow there are so few truly interesting people and while it's true enough that he won't be able to get Reid into bed or drag him into some other part of his life, he's not quite prepared to write him off entirely. Intelligence of his level is rare and Philip doesn't pretend as if he's anywhere near as brilliant, but he has to admit that Reid makes for an interesting companion and conversationalist, no matter what it is they're speaking of.
It's rare for him to discover something like that. He's not willing to let that go quite so easily.
"And have you found out who caused the accident?" he asks. "Seems odd that they haven't been able to find the person driving the truck that hit you." These aren't details Philip should know. There had been a general call for information in the newspaper not long after the accident, asking for any witnesses to come forward, but nothing beyond that. Philip knows because he's dug around, because he's asked questions and even paid a little bit to discover what he could. Reid will likely find it odd, but he doubts he'll say much of anything. The knowledge they share, the things they know about each other, it explains a lot about both of them, he thinks, and when he comes out of the woodwork with information he shouldn't necessarily have, he doubts it comes as much of a surprise to Reid.
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And in his own odd way, he does care how Reid is doing, is he's healing properly. In Darrow there are so few truly interesting people and while it's true enough that he won't be able to get Reid into bed or drag him into some other part of his life, he's not quite prepared to write him off entirely. Intelligence of his level is rare and Philip doesn't pretend as if he's anywhere near as brilliant, but he has to admit that Reid makes for an interesting companion and conversationalist, no matter what it is they're speaking of.
It's rare for him to discover something like that. He's not willing to let that go quite so easily.
"And have you found out who caused the accident?" he asks. "Seems odd that they haven't been able to find the person driving the truck that hit you." These aren't details Philip should know. There had been a general call for information in the newspaper not long after the accident, asking for any witnesses to come forward, but nothing beyond that. Philip knows because he's dug around, because he's asked questions and even paid a little bit to discover what he could. Reid will likely find it odd, but he doubts he'll say much of anything. The knowledge they share, the things they know about each other, it explains a lot about both of them, he thinks, and when he comes out of the woodwork with information he shouldn't necessarily have, he doubts it comes as much of a surprise to Reid.