why would you reblog that fic of yours again!!!! made me cry again fs haha
BECAUSE AARON WILL ALWAYS BE ROBERT’S BEST WHAT IF.
and it’s like this. Robert moves to London, the cacophony of the city enough to keep his thoughts at bay because he does think about them. About the family, he could have had. The life he wanted so desperately, the life he clutched onto as hard as he could until he just had to stop.
The city helps, work helps. He meets people. Makes friends and he cares, cares about them. But they’ll always be that ‘what if’ at the back of his mind. He meets someone then, she’s amazing, his heart skips beat every time she walks into the room. She’s funny, sarcastic, different from Aaron, but yet he finds he loves her and his heart finally starts to heal.
They do city things. They walk through Hyde Park, go ice skating, she laughs at him as he wipes out, face first into the ice. They go to trendy restaurants and take corny Instagram pictures that everyone in their circle would groan at.
He brings her home. She gets on with Vic. Diane loves her. She knows. Drunk and unable to stop himself it all tumbled out. It takes her a while to process it. But she holds him tight, “we have to live in the moment Rob because that’s all we have.” It’s Christmas, there’s snow everywhere, and Robert’s walking down the street, and he sees him.
Aaron. His with his new boyfriend and he looks happy. Robert’s happy too. He clutches her hand, watches as Aaron laughs at something this new guy, only his not new, at least not to everyone else says. And he smiles because Aaron will always be his greatest what if. It doesn’t make him sad anymore, he doesn’t want to sit on the couch and eat a tub of ice cream and listen to sad songs and wallow. Because he has her, and Aaron has him.
Maybe Robert and her will get married, maybe they’ll have kids. Maybe they’ll be together till they’re old and grey and death takes them from each other (they do.) Robert’s learnt that the what if’s shouldn’t make him sad, they should make him happy. Because he had Aaron, even for just a moment. And that was special. That was important.
And now he can move on and be happy. Aaron can be happy. Even if his life turned out differently than he thought it would.
(I am sorry i know you want robron together me too but I couldn’t help it)