#kvnghs

[deadxbones-a]

⨳ — @kvnghs​

it’s a tough call. it really is. to stab him, or not to stab him. truthfully, it wouldn’t be the first time she’d done it. probably wouldn’t be the last either. if there was one thing that liam was excellent at, it was finding her last nerve and getting on it. daphne was fairly sure that he enjoyed every last moment of doing so. however, the last time she had stabbed him, she ended up chipping her favorite dagger on bone and he’d refused to replace it cause ‘she was the one who stabbed him’ so it was her fault. as if. daph exhaled slowly, grinding her lower jaw for a moment before she looked over at him. “in lieu of stabbing you, i’m so very close to punching you in your stupid fucking face instead.”

[zooomies]

it wasn’t that liam wasn’t happy to see barry — of course he was, they had spent inseparable days together when they were younger that he couldn’t imagine trading anything for.  but it wasn’t exactly the setting for him to show his excitement either.  and as soon as barry turns around to show off the back of his jacket — CSI— liam can feel the drop in his stomach like he just topped the hill of the steepest roller-coaster and is on his way down.  

shit.

the thing was, this is who barry was supposed to be…and this was who liam was supposed to be.  they’re both exactly where they were always going to end up.  the unlikeliest pair of friends from the beginning who never seemed to see any of that.  and then life happened and here they were.  liam wouldn’t use the word fate, but it almost feels like a fateful slap in the face to be sitting opposite barry in this manner.

liam’s still quiet for a moment, letting everything just settle.  he saw ma, that’s good - she’s always wondered about barry.  there’s probably an odd calmness to liam, almost a staleness to his personality that wasn’t him.  “ i’m happy for you… ”  was he?  yes, but worried too.  

barry was…well, he was always good, and liam can see that absolutely nothing has changed about that.  he’s glad though, it wouldn’t be right if it had — that’s who barry was.  

and liam was mostly the exact opposite.  he wasn’t good.  at least not anymore.  barry still knew a child who hadn’t existed in a very long time.  there were things that liam had done…had been involved in, that would make barry turn his back and never think twice about liam again.

the quiet sits around them with just a lull of voices in the distance until liam speaks up again.  “ thanks for goin’ t’see ma, i know she probably talked y’ear off.  but… ”  a beat, a breath.  “ go ahead and ask what everyone else does — ”  

did you do it?  why’d you do it?  did you love him?  was it all  premeditated?  

how did you do it?

he’s already heard it all now.

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the question, right. the one everyone always asks, except barry allen because if there is something he knows about liam, something that has never waivered even after all these years apart and their lives going in two different directions...

it's that liam wouldn't hurt someone he truly loved, not like that, not so brutally with such disdain poured into the act. it didn't make any sense.

"what, if you did it? i know you didn't do it," his voice is as sure as the sky is blue. barry doesn't even hesitate to say it.

he pauses, licks his bottom lip and shakes his head, "man and it's fucked up anyone thinks you did. i get it, i've read your files, liam."

quieter still, barry leans is, "i'm assigned to your case. i'm running the labs. actually, uh, before we go, i really need you to do me a favor and let me get a swab of your dna. i know they already have it but i told someone we lost it and needed a new one."

@kvnghs

[zooomies]

❝ look at me - see this? this is a look of un-fucking-surprise on my face. ❞

his mask slips into the ring like water down a drain. a flick of the wrist, imperceptible to anyone else, can draw it back up before someone can fully blink.

but right now it's off and it stays off. there is a slight indent around his cheeks where the mask hugs too tightly sometimes.

"i was going to tell you," he starts, but stops abruptly. was he though?

[zooomies]

❝ here i feared you’d forgotten about me. ❞

"liam. lee-UHM. are you fuckin' kiddin' me? first of all, you.. scared? and secondly, me, forgetful- wait, don't answer that second part!"

[zooomies]

❝ the world doesn’t forgive. it eats people alive. but you - well, you survived. ❞

"do you understand what i've done to survive? or what i haven't done?"

at some point he realized he couldn't run away from everything if he wanted to live, which was far more than just surviving. but it's not easy to explain all the things he's had to give up in turning around and facing everything head on, even when he could easily out-run the worst of it.

[foxtaeil]

⤷ @kvnghs    ──  4am is the perfect time to bang knock on someone's door, right? yeah, seemed like it to liam. knock, knock, knockin' on mellie's door. peering through the window, like a creep. " anyone upppp? "

( >.> once upon a time we talked about a lawyer verse connection? u didn't ask for this but ahifdjfsdo )

there is no soft awakening, no gentle pull back into consciousness. rather, she is jolted back into reality ── thrusted without warning from sweet insensibility back into an expanse of linen sheets by an incessant pounding on her front door. the urgency of it all has her out of bed instantaneously, heart racing, her body stilled ── until she recognizes the voice on the other side. the door flies open to reveal liam, as expected, looking infuriatingly unbothered by his own intrusion. " what the hell? is this your idea of a joke? "

[graveycrd]

@kvnghs from x

"I have no idea what you are on about," says Bod, around a blue-red worm he tosses into his mouth. It came from a pocket in his jacket, not so secretly crinkling when he slides his hand back in there.

They're close enough to share breath, so surely Liam can smell the saccharine berry that has the bed of Bod's tongue the color of violets.

He smiles, plucks another worm from his pocket and wiggles it like it's alive before sticking the red part between his teeth, teasing.

[graveycrd]

❛ i do what people pay me to do. ❜

"Okay but that's too simple. That's too vague. Like, what, can I pay you to go work at maccas? Y'gonna serve me chips 'cos I pay you? You've got limits, haven't you?"