"How could anyone not think you mattered?" Aramis asks with equal wonder, and he can't bear it anymore, drawing Porthos to him to kiss him deeply. "I think I loved you from the start, right from that very first fierce flash of your eyes," he says against Porthos' lips. "And if I did not, then I fell the first time you laughed, truly laughed, right from the bottom of your belly. I wonder that I can even see anyone else when you are in the room."