wylan van eck who love thunderstorms with a passion, but over the years has learnt to associate loud, unpredictable noises with fear and hi father.
jesper fahey who knows this, and will sit through every single thunderstorm with wylan in his arms as the two of them watch the rain from the open back door, sitting on the doorsteps. and he rubs wylans arms and keep his head firmly against wylan's curls, and kisses him every time the thunder makes him jump, who comments on the intensity and the flashes of the lightening, who engages in conversations with wylan about the storm in order to make it feel less scary, who listens to wylan talk quietly about the electricity and his fansination of storms
and, many, many years into the future, a wylan who is still cautious of loud, unpredictable noises, but not the ones thunder makes. because now he's learnt to associate thunder crashes with jesper kissing his head and soothing him.
















