For the Love We Once Had

'At the time, he hadn’t understood the significance of those first petals, what they represented and what they would come to mean for his future. Instead he had dismissed them, pushing them from his mind, too consumed by the fact that Gabriel was alive and the words that just wouldn’t leave him alone. You are nothing. 'Finding out Gabriel was alive. Changed, certainly but alive, brought up memories and feelings that Soldier76 had thought were buried for good. The petals tell him that might be more of a curse than a blessing.