*busts door down* FLASHES AU!!!
Time for some Quality Flashes Content so!
I’ve mentioned this one before, but when Erik is tired and not up to much and Christine happens to be visiting, he WILL braid her hair. Often without thinking about it. It gives his hands something to do, and he finds it very soothing. Rahim also tends to wear his hair reasonably long just so Erik and braid it, and Erik loves counting how many tiny braids he can get in Rahim’s beard. His fingers are very nimble. Erik is the hairdressing king.
Sometimes Erik and Rahim lie in bed or cuddle together and say nothing, just exist together, breathing in time with each other with their fingers twined.
Erik likes to lie with his head in Rahim’s lap and read aloud. Rahim loves listening to him.
After Erik’s near-fatal bout of pneumonia his singing voice never quite recovers, and he loses much of his stamina for long notes. His voice is a little rougher, and it troubles him, though Rahim continually tells him that he still sounds beautiful, just different.
Darius has Seen Things he would prefer to unsee, but he never mentions them.
Even after all these years Darius has connections in Persia thanks to his extended family, and he keeps in regular contact with them to the extent that he has them send him things, such as the wine for Erik and Rahim’s fifteenth anniversary.
Though Darius would never admit to it out loud, he does care quite deeply for Erik and worries about him almost as much as Rahim does. He also worries about Rahim a lot. Darius is full of worries.
At one stage Rahim suffered terribly with migraines due to lack of sleep, when Erik’s nightmares were at their worst, to the extent that he actually collapsed on one occasion. When he came around it was to Erik hovering over him half-mad with panic and Darius gone for a doctor. This led to the decision for Erik to take laudanum when he’s gone a while without sleep. Morphine was also suggested, but Erik feared residual pain in his arm from the needle would interfere with his ability to play music.
Rahim actually hates the fact that it’s necessary for Erik to use laudanum, and it brings a whole pile of extra worries for him, though he is relieved to see Erik getting some peaceful sleep, even if it is drugged.
Sometimes Rahim wonders how life might have turned out if he had left Persia with Erik. And though he imagines that they would have gotten together much sooner, and it would be nice to have had all of those missed years, he’s grateful for the time that they do have, and part of him knows that they both had a lot of growing up to do before they ever did get together.
This is way more than 5 but I love Flashes ‘verse to bits! Also tagging @hopsjollyhigh @dunkinphantom @dying-suffering-french-stalkers @mendedpixie7 and @loudlewdlyricalmiracle , because I know they’re all Flashes fans!
(Incidentally, I have some ideas for a Timer AU of Flashes ‘verse, but I won’t go into it here.)
