& * adam ( @hooklineandtwisted )
“What the hell makes you think we’re anything special, Ronan?” Adam swallowed. “What makes you think that we have to have this all figured out and stick to a plan before we even get there?”
He grabbed the other boy’s hand and touched around the torn skin. “There’s always a chance this doesn’t work, but are we going to throw it away because you’re afraid one day I’ll wake up and want to run?”
He bit his lip. “Let me choose you.” He knew Ronan wouldn’t answer the question directly. “God damn, you. Please let me choose this.”
He pulled him closer. “Maybe it’ll work and we’ll be horribly domestic and hate ourselves, but be so damn happy Gansey will do that thing where he just smiles at us and Blue will say she hates visiting, but secretly she’ll love the way you make pancakes and I steal batter from the bowl.”
Adam took a breath in deep enough that his chest rose. “And maybe it won’t work. Maybe you’ll decide I’m like my dad and maybe I’ll feel trapped and we’ll be destructive and toxic and this whole thing will crash and burn.”
Another tug and they were chest to chest and Adam laid his hand on the side of Ronan’s face and rubbed his cheek with his thumb. “But maybe it won’t. That’s my dream, Ronan. Everything else is semantics. I can make the other things fit this dream, but I can’t make any of those dreams feel worth it if you’re not a part of them.”
because a plan is what ronan wanted. because there was nothing in ronan’s life that ever went according to plan & goddamn it, he wanted a plan. this once. to be able to have it all figured out where he’s not sitting at home wondering if adam will come home. if adam met someone else. if adam got bored. IF ADAM. all he wanted was adam parrish & he rather push him away now then get too deep where he’d just let his demons drown him.
but he didn’t answer. adam wanted this. so he’d keep his worries to himself --- though he knew sooner than later they’d come out in awful dreams. he’d keep himself up. sleep when adam was away or when ronan was inside the barns where it was safe. where he could contain them.
‘ fine. ’ that was all he said, wincing slightly to warmth over the fresh wounds. this would stop the fight. stop the pain. for a moment. ronan could hide this, couldn’t he ? it was his doubt. his fears. parrish didn’t need to get dragged into this.
now they were chest to chest, the anger turning into sorrow, lining his eyes with tears. he wouldn’t let himself cry again. so he screwed his eyes shut & willed them away.
‘ fine ’ he repeated, chest rising & falling with the sigh he’s exhaled.
instinctively, the dreamer turned his face into the magician’s hand, clenching his jaw & releasing it, trying to ease his body to relax. again. ‘ fine. ’