#bludam

[adamprrishcycle]

Thinking about older blue and adam doing the watch at the graveyard on st mark’s eve. adam freezes up and stops giving blue names and she’s like ??? adam finally finds his voice and tells her. my— stops. tries again. robert parrish. He stares for a long time watching someone unseen to blue move across the graveyard. and then he bounces back like nothing happened. He won’t talk about it after

[aglionbyacademia]

Adam to Blue about Gansey but also Gansey to Blue about Adam

[harlotsforcinnamon]

ahhhh would love to hear more about / read any snippet of your Blue x Adam kiss WIP! I've always wondered about that same scene played out differently and you have now stoked the fire!

YAYYAYYYY THANK YOU

Okay so yeah this is basically exactly what it says on the tin. Adam comes back from his weekend in DC w Gansey, confronts Blue just like in canon, she delivers the devastating blow of “My true love will die when I kiss them and now I know that’s not gonna be you” and he’s like cool I’m not crazy in thinking you were avoiding kissing me. Anyway, you wanna?

Here’s an excerpt:

[lizpaige]

what if the gangsey are hanging out post trk and theyre all haha laughing having a good time and they get to talking about adam and blue and oh well even if you smooched him blue it wouldve been fine cause he’s not your true love or whatever so they smooch anyway and adam drops dead 🙃

[rodansey]

Congrats on 100, Aurum! 💕💕💕Do you think you could do #70 with ANY TRC pairing? Thank you, love!

100 ways to say ‘I love you’

Blue/Adam - 70. “You’re warm.”

[Thank you for being so patient! Things have been a Ride, but I’m finally able to write a bit more! I really wanted to give Blue and Adam a bit more love, so I went with them for your prompt. I really hope you like it! Also tagging @henriettahoney, who I seem to remember also liked this prompt with a side order of sickfic/comfort, so here we are!]

“Thanks for coming on such short notice.”

Blue stepped into her room, holding a mug of something steaming. It distracted Adam from staring at her walls, and he narrowed his eyes at the cup. She couldn’t blame him for the suspicion, not when it came from the 300 Fox Way kitchen. She huffed, sitting down next to him on her bed. He had his hands politely in his lap, but he leaned toward her slightly to peer at the tea string. She’d wrapped it neatly around the handle so as not to get lost in the water. 

“It wasn’t a problem,” Adam replied distractedly.

“Do you really think I’d do you like that? It’s dollar store ginger with some lemon and honey. Here.” 

Blue pushed the mug into his hands, and he held it up to just breathe it in. Not because he didn’t trust it, but because the novelty of it was comforting. Outside her window, snow was coming down in fat flakes, while voices chattered away downstairs. 

“Mom and Calla are arguing over how much they’re going to give you for fixing the car.”

Adam looked startled over the rim of the cup, then winced as he burned his tongue on a sip. “They don’t have to pay me, Blue. It was no big deal.”

“Pshaw.” Blue fidgeted with the hem of her black secondhand biker jacket. Where the vinyl peeled away, she’d started hand sewing patches on. Her fingers lingered against one such patch with a honeybee on a sunflower. “If we’d taken it to a shop, especially in this weather, it would’ve cost them a fortune. Let them give you something.”

“The tea is fine.” 

“Yeah, but be careful saying that in front of mom, or you’ll go home with something to heighten the awareness of your third eye, side effects may include hallucination or diarrhea,” she cautioned him with a vicious little smile. 

He laughed in spite of himself. “Fair. You know I still don’t want anything.”

“Good luck winning that one with them.” 

Blue couldn’t help reaching up to muss his already grease-stained hair. Adam made a noise of protest, but didn’t pull away. He was getting better at those casual touches, ones that were just meant to be playful, an honest affection. They’d come a long way and Blue had decided, after all they’d been through, that if Adam wasn’t comfortable with it, she’d stop and that was that. Today, she stopped for a different reason. 

“What?” he asked warily, catching sight of the frown pulling at her face. 

Instead of answering, she turned her wrist and pressed the inside of it to his forehead. “You’re warm,” she murmured thoughtfully. 

Adam shrugged. “It’s the tea.” 

“No, it’s not.” Now she held both palms to the side of his face, “you’re all flushed up. Did you even wear a jacket here?”

“Yeah, it’s downstairs, Blue. Stop fussing, I’m fine.”

“I’ve heard that before. Look, you said you didn’t have to work this afternoon, so it’s really not going to hurt you if you stayed for a little bit, right? When was the last time you slept.”

Adam leveled her with a look that said he wasn’t about to answer that anytime soon. Blue stuck out her lower lip and got up, trudging out of the room with a determined set to her shoulders. She returned a moment later with a plastic bottle that sloshed with red liquid. 

“Blue—”

“It’s just some daytime cold medicine, relax.”

“One, easier said than done. Two, I don’t need—” Adam turned and muffled a cough into the crook of his arm. 

Blue fixed him with a laser sharp stern gaze. He noted distantly that she seemed to get that from Maura. Adam wanted to fight her the way he fought the notion he wasn’t taking better care of himself, the way he fought his own stubborn insomnia. In the early days, Blue often made fighting much easier, directly proportional to how much he’d wanted to touch her and be close. Now that he could have the closeness without the fighting, he couldn’t find as much steam to resist. 

Blue asked, brushing his bangs away from his forehead. Her fingers felt blessedly cool in comparison to the fire he’d been ignoring under his skin. “Please stay for a bit?” 

Blue saying please was a secret and sacred weapon. Adam sighed and leaned toward her touch.

“Okay, but just for a little bit.” 

The mug made its way out of his hands and onto a little overturned bucket she’d painted green and overturned to make a little bedside table. She gave him the little plastic cup of medicine, then eased him back to her pillow gently. She paused, looking down at him, her features a little blurry as he yawned and blinked to keep her in focus. Then Blue crawled up next to him, very little room for both of them on her bed, but she made it work. Tucking her head under his chin, she twined her fingers in his and stayed with him.

[crimeronan]

daydreamed up a trc ot6 zombie apocalypse au full of drama

the catalysts for this au: “i want ronan injured and dying without a hospital nearby, and i want adam allied with kavinsky and burning up about it inside because he hates it and would never have let this happen if there’d been another choice”

it starts with gansey driving a bmw that’s clearly on its last legs (and who the hell drives anymore anyway) into a place that’s at least Rumored to have a safe human population and pounding on closed doors begging for help — “my best friend’s hurt he needs help” and as the oppressive silence deepens:

“hes not BIT I SWEAR SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE”

ronan lynch is in the passenger seat of his bmw chalk white and clearly dying because the only scenario in which gansey COULD drive into an unknown town and beg for help is one where ronan is too fucked up to stop him

 (and if you think ronan hasn’t somehow managed to take a bullet or two for gansey during this time youd be so incorrect. how does ronan manage to be around so much gunfire the answer is talent)

in some ways adam parrish has gotten everything he could have wanted from life in a way he does Not desire because being a working class hands-on mechanic with an intimate knowledge of cars in the post-apocalypse means sudden social status and influence and import

but he hasn’t Really gotten everything he wanted because hes allied with some people he’d have preferred not to and done some things for survival that keep him awake at night and he doesn’t have Enough power here to stop certain bad people from doing bad things without getting himself killed

gansey’s too exhausted and fried to find the charming personality that’ll move mountains and hes retired to the bmw (which is out of gas) with his head in his hands 

and when ronans lucid — which isnt often — he keeps trying to give gansey advice on throwing punches and knocking people out and hotwiring cars and stealing supplies in this urgent way that clearly means he thinks he's not gonna be around to do these things for gansey anymore and this is NOT helping gansey's state of mind

dusk falls and then night falls and gansey's pretty sure he's about to watch ronan die and not be able to do anything about it 

and then there's a tap on the window from a guy who looks like he was born from the ashes of the apocalypse and finds the end of the world incredibly irritating because can't someone give existence some other flavors

"i'll give you a tow"

gansey's not about to distrust a miracle so that's how he meets adam parrish

anyway before adam brings the tow truck he's like "i need to look at him" re: ronan because he can see that the guy in the passenger seat is Fucked Up and while it could be an infected wound — anyone with a survival instinct would not sit in a car with a bitten person for hours on end -- it sure wouldn't be the first time adam's seen someone get themselves chomped because they're too fuckdeep in denial to admit their loved one is a lost cause

gansey's like "he's not bit" and adam's like "i hear you but i'm not bringing you anywhere til i know for sure" 

and gansey has this moment of realization that this guy is currently ready to kill ronan and will not hesitate to do it and probably has a backup plan for handling gansey too if it comes to that

the difference between adam and gansey as people is much more quickly illustrated in this scenario than in canon

gansey has no plan for what he's gonna do if adam turns out to be one of those "can't risk it, gotta kill everyone with a stubbed toe" types but fortunately for everyone adam doesn't do wanton mass murder for the sake of murder he's just honed himself razor-thin into something extremely callous and practical

adam opens the passenger door and peels away what's left of ronan's tank top and the horribly old horribly unsanitary worn through bandages and he concludes pretty quick that this isn't a case of someone turning zombie but from the look on his face it's pretty fckn clear he doesn't consider the current situation much more hopeful than a turning zombie case

adam's seen the way gansey's called for help and has waited until dark to be sneaky helpful because reasons which means he already knows ronan means a lot to gansey and he already has a preemptive headache about it but he's like

"okay. don't be offended. but. scale of one to ten. how... attached are you to him"

"Excuse Me"

the ensuing whisper-hissed argument basically boils down to gansey going "i don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people" 

and adam going "i don't know how to explain to you that wasting limited medical supplies on people who are gonna die anyway is bad"

 and gansey going "okay well i'm not going anywhere without him and i die if he dies so you can leave actually" 

and adam being like [most longsuffering person in the universe] "i'll take you guys back to my place"

adam tows them to an old auto body shop that seems to still be serving its pre-apocalypse purpose because when you're a car mechanic who's survived the apocalypse it makes sense to settle down in a structure that's at least optimized for you to work efficiently

as soon as the bmw is safely inside the garage and the door is closed there's a tiny girl there opening the passenger door to look at ronan 

(gansey and ronan have remained in the car during the tow instead of being in the tow truck because adam didn't want to move ronan and gansey was not going to leave him)

 and she kind of sucks her teeth like she's appraising an unfortunate car wreck like "that's gotta hurt"

gansey's coiled up with adrenaline and ready to have the exact same fight he just had with adam except then she's like "okay let me grab my mom and persephone and whatever medications i can scrounge up hm. this does look really bad"

adam's very tired and in a mood and as he's getting out of the truck he's like "yeah well i tried" and gansey's about to be extremely uncharitable except the girl zeroes the fuck in on this like "you tried what, adam"

adam's like oh my god.  am i really gonna have to get it from all sides tonight and she's like "well i know you didn't try fixing him because it's a little more than a bandaid situation" 

and adam's like wow i sure have other things to be doing with my time and she's like "you didn't"

 and he's like "well look, the guy's ALIVE and HERE isn't he, so if you're gonna accuse me of something let's at least focus on that"

 and she's like "ADAM."

gansey immediately likes her

gansey’s also grappling with powerful relief because he and ronan haven’t seen another person in weeks and oh there are people here who can HELP

adam and blue continue fighting literally the entire time they're going to get maura and persephone and when they come back and when they're helping get a semiconscious ronan out of the car

they pretty clearly do this a lot because somehow even as they're each ripping into the other about their flaws they're also working together and with maura and persephone in terms of taking physical positions to move ronan and keep him stable and like.  they're not interrupting their argument with ronan-positioning commentary they're just managing to argue and instinctively move with each other anyway with no pause

gansey feels one grudging half smidgen iota of gratefulness (which would be full-blown gratefulness if he wasn't determined to have a grudge) at one point which is 

when they're moving ronan onto a makeshift stretcher or w/e and there's really no painless way to do it no matter how gentle and careful they are and ronan YELLS and tries to sit up like what the FUCK is happening

 and gansey's been keeping out of the way but he's like oh okay i am needed now and it's maybe three seconds before he's at ronan's side

 but in that span of time adam's managed to push ronan back down and is very quietly calmly explaining the situation to him without any hint of his earlier irritation or exasperation

and gansey's like so relieved that this guy is apparently practiced enough with injured people to have developed a calm bedside manner but he's also like fuck that i'm mad at you and you're a dick

the interior of the shop has been converted into an apartment space that didn't technically have two floors at first but sort of does now thanks to the miracle of loft construction and having too much time on ur hands

maura and persephone have the stretcher w/ adam spotting and blue drags gansey inside so they'll be out of the way

there's a blonde kid wearing a t-shirt and boxers with naruto bedhead who has the wide-eyed alertness of someone who woke up five minutes ago but now must be part of the adventure 

and blue's like "this is noah, he FAINTS AT THE SIGHT OF BLOOD" 

and noah's like "oh yeah i do don't i" and scampers up to the loft and disappears before the stretcher can enter

up in the loft a different voice says "THAT IS MY RIB" and then an entirely new guy (how many are they keeping up there) descends also in boxers and a t-shirt like "will someone please inform the resident golden retriever that i am a fragile waif who must not be disturbed" 

he reaches the landing just in time to see the stretcher being carried in.  

gansey's not really focused on him because he's watching ronan. anyway instead of reacting like a normal human being to the sudden appearance of drama the guy leans against blue's shoulder and in the most put-upon tone imaginable is like "blue you must start informing me when half-naked attractive wounded men are being carried through the kitchen so i can do my hair"

blue's like "this is henry. he's returning to the void now. henry get out"

the thing is after this expression of apparently complete disinterest in the ronan situation henry touches blue's elbow and the two of them exchange a quick look that gansey catches despite his focus on ronan 

because gansey is exquisitely versed in the language of subtle glances and very slightly angled eyebrows or mouths

ronan's getting successfully laid out on the couch and persephone's about to do what she can (in my head she's a medical doctor in this au bc can u imagine) and the situation is about as handled as it can be for now and there's nothing gansey can do except get in the way

 and he does have the presence of mind to realize he doesn't know much about these people yet and should be cautious and learn what he can

so when henry and blue casually walk out the back door into the much cooler evening gansey..... sort of follows them

there's not a lot of room to do hardcore sneaking so he can't get close enough to hear all of the conversation but he sure can see that henry looks more worried than the flippant cool boy he was just introduced to 

and he thinks he might hear henry mention someone named "kay"??

and then he most fucking definitely hears blue's snapped reply of "don't even start, adam's bad enough, i'm NOT putting up with it from you" and then gansey has to very quickly duck back inside because the pair of them are turning back toward the house

that’s about all i’ve got for this scene but here’s additional important content

eventually gansey asks blue why so many people drop in and out of the auto shop all the time because there's clearly not room for literally all of them to be sleeping there permanently and no one except adam seems all that interested in mechanics

 and what he's really asking but trying to be polite about is "you clearly don't agree with this asshole's principles so how are so many seemingly normal people giving him the time of day"

 (gansey is used to being on the receiving end of this conversation wrt ronan, he's never been the one asking before, it's weird, he's puzzled) 

and he gets SUCH fucking whiplash when the answer turns out to be "because adam's saved every single one of our lives"

blue's like "also he's my best friend and i love him i'm not enslaved via blood debt or something but y'know. the loyalty is hard to shake"

gansey has a very unpleasant realization of "adam protects these people like ronan protects me" and wants to unrealize it because that makes it a lot harder to hold a grudge suddenly

adam has no way of gauging how far is too far or how callous is too callous except that blue's there to be like "you sound like a supervillain and should take a nap" at any given moment

ronan has to take a while recovering and the fact that he sleeps a lot and slips in and out of consciousness means plenty of people have partial or full conversations in his earshot assuming he's not listening

 so he's gleaning a lot about these people and how they function and what's up with kavinsky’s stranglehold on the town and adam’s proximity to him

 which means the first time he's clear-headed enough to have a lucid conversation with adam the first words out of his mouth are "so who's holding your leash"

the second words out of his mouth are “are they gonna hurt gansey”

ronan: are they gonna hurt gansey adam: he wont do anything to anyone staying here first of all i’d stop being useful second of all i don’t let him in here ronan: [swinging his legs off the couch] cool cool adam: WHAT are you doing ronan: you’re out of your fucking mind if you think i’m gonna keep gansey around some bullshit chaos worshipping hell cult i’m taking my fucking car and finding a microsociety that isn’t taking pointers from mad fucking max adam: you’re in no shape to drive and i haven’t even fixed your car yet ronan: [standing, doing his best to Loom, clearly squaring up for a fistfight because that’s how he settles everything] oh yeah?? who’s gonna stop me gansey, from the doorway: me. you’re bleeding through your bandages, lynch

[felderwin]

this is my contribution which i’m proud of

[crimeronan]

GOD they like each other so MUCH i’m gonna die

they don’t know each other very well yet at all and they haven’t yet formed a full picture of who the other is but they each like So Much about the other

adam sees the same things in blue that he sees in gansey, that she’s self-possessed and knows herself and looks on the outside like she feels inside and is confident and unafraid of being a little or a lot weird

he admires her so much he loves spending time around her and enjoying her energy and making conversation with her

and she likes So Much about him — she doesn’t know him much deeper than the face he shows to other people, she doesn’t see a lot of him & some of the things she likes about him are coping or defense mechanisms that aren’t good for him

but most of what she likes is the way he treats her, how he’s kind and gentle and sweet and compliments her and makes an effort to apologize when she’s hurt (albeit by gansey) and how he sent her flowers and was the first one to include her in the group and how he seems genuinely entranced by her (because he is) and doesn’t want her to change anything about herself to make herself palatable (because he doesn’t)

they’re kids who don’t know each other yet and the learning of each other’s three dimensions comes with its fair share of screwups and messiness but in the beginning here the fact that adam is attracted to blue’s confidence and sense of self while blue is attracted to adam’s kindness and thoughtfulness?? so good. they don’t have an incorrect picture of the other they just have an incomplete one