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All For Love and Love For All [Hanahaki AU pt 2]

Summary:

To love with every fiber of your being, that's what he'd been taught. Never did he think this unconditional sentiment would lead to unrequited love, but that's where he was, surrounded by an array of different coloured flowers.

Fandoms: Crewniverse, Homies SMP, Chaos Crew/Derp Crew

Ships: Anthony | ChilledChaos/Max Gamble, Anthony | ChilledChaos/Jess Bubger, Max Gamble/Taryn Hillin

Rating: Mature

Part 1

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“You can’t just keep avoiding them you know?”

"I know. But they all know now. If they didn't before they do now. I don't want pity, they'll never look at me the same again."

"Then don't stop being you. Max, you're one of the most genuine and caring people I've ever met. Don't let anyone or anything take that away from you. But you have to realise that your friends, they're worried. You haven't talked to anyone except me for three weeks and that's not great. You know what I'm probably not the best person to give you advice in this field."

He shook his head, "Don't put yourself down like that. Your illness, it's treatable. It doesn't define you as a person. I would take advice from you over anybody else. They don't know what it's like to live with something invisible. Something can't see."

She smiled, "Take a dose of your own medicine for once you goose."

He chuckled and shook his head, picking up his phone.

Zach

Max seriously. This isn't a joke anymore. We're really worried about you. Kara said…

He clicked the notification, punching in the code it opened up the messaging app.

Max seriously. This isn't a joke anymore. We're really worried about you. Kara said that if you don't start answering us now, she's going to come over and bust the door down. I don't want you to get in trouble with the landlord or whatever but radio silence normally isn't a good sign. Especially not with the condition you're in.

He rolled his eyes, “In your condition, you’d think I had something not curable.” he said taking a sip of his tea.

“Well, I mean. Science has cures for cancers and other ailments, but what you’ve got they don’t even know how to stop it without taking a fundamental part of human nature away. So in a way, they’re right. You could be dead by now, any normal person would be.”

He glanced down at his arms, stems remained where flowers used to be, “It’s getting better.”

“What?”

He stuck his arm out for her to see, “It’s going away.”

She pulled his arm closer to her, prodding the stem. “You haven’t been leaving trails anymore, have you? I honestly just thought you were cleaning it before I managed to catch them.”

He thought for a moment, “No. Not for a few days actually.”

“You’ve been coughing them up less too, from the time we spend together. Maybe you’re moving past him .” she caught his eye, her grin wide like a Cheshire cat.

“Excuse me. I never said that I was caught up on a he. Where do you get that idea?”

She laughed, “It doesn’t take a genius to piece the puzzle together sweetheart. You fall off the face of the earth, ghost your friends, stay locked up in here, only talk to me, all after that one clip started floating around of Cheesy absolutely owning Chilled with facts. A blind man could see you were in love with a him. If your friends can’t figure it out by now, maybe they’re just being blissfully ignorant.”

He stared dumbfounded, “I- was it really that obvious?”

“Maybe. I mean for me, someone who met you on that day yeah it was. For your friends, probably not, they probably had ideas for who it could be, maybe even bets. But I could be wrong. He seemed or seems pretty oblivious though. Does he flirt with everyone?”

Max snorted, placing his cup down, “Yeah. Especially with Ze, I think it’s their little bit y’know? Fan service or whatever.”

“So if you knew he jokes about this often, what changed in you for you to take it the other way.”

He looked down, he could clearly see the memory in front of him but he shook it away, “I don’t want to think about it anymore. Actually, I don’t want to think about him anymore.”

She lifted his head by his chin, “Hey I didn’t mean to pry. Don’t be sad, sometimes a new begining is needed.” her phone dinged and she glanced at it, “Shit, I was meant to meet Jess 10 minutes ago. Uh, continue this later yeah?”

He chuckled, “Of curse.” the door slammed a couple of second later and he let out a sigh.

Jess. Wait Jess? Must be a coincidence, I’m sure it’s not his Jess. What are the chances?

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Dude the stems are all gone, what happened over your break?” the curly-haired man engulfed Max in a hug.

“I just took some time to myself, sat alone with my thoughts a lot, reconciled them. Boring shit y’know?”

“Right, you didn’t meet someone and move on or anything right?” Kara taunted, patting him on the shoulder and heading over to the couch.

Max laughed.

“What’s that? Jealous he clearly wasn’t hung up on you eh Kara?”

Kara scoffed, throwing a pillow at him.

“Hey, those aren’t mine. Don’t ruin them.” Max called from the kitchen area.

“Ooo, mystery person that we don’t know about?” she said, shielding her face as Speedy chucked the pillow back at her.

Max rolled his eyes, taking some drinks over to the, sitting beside Cheesy, “First of all, her name is Taryn. You guys might get to meet her today actually. Second, she moved in two months ago, the landlord's choice. Not mine.”

The others sighed collectively.

“You haven’t found new friends you’re hiding from us have you?”

“Nobody could replace you guys-” the lock clicked and they all looked across the room.

“So I said- oh hey Max, didn’t realise that your friends were gonna be here.”

“Is all good, was hoping to introduce you all eventually anyway.”

“Are we able to come in or are we gonna be hallway goblins?”

“Right, sorry.” Taryn moved towards the group, behind her followed by a woman.

Their eyes met and Max felt sick, What are the odds?

“This is Jess. Jess this is-”

“When you said your roommate's name was Max, I never thought.” he assumed Jess said that.

Kara, Speedy and Kara shot quick glances between the new comers and Max.

“This can’t be real,” Max mumbled, breaking eye contact with the stranger, “Taryn you aren’t playing some sort of prank on me right?”

Taryn stood clueless about the situation at hand, “I have no idea what you’re talking about. I told you I was going out to meet Jess and she’d something about her partner being with her. Can someone please tell me what’s going on, I’m so lost.”

He stared hopelessly at his roommate and just shook his head, he stood and made his way across the room to the bathroom, locking the door behind him. He lent over the sink his heart felt heavy, what were the chances? One in a million.

His lungs seized, and a tidal wave of petals poured out of his mouth and into the basin, he started banging on his chest, trying to force them out, but it was no use. Why bother, you don’t want pity and no one understands it anyway. Just let go. Blood pumped in his ears as the petals spilt over the basin onto the floor. Screams were muffled by the door and he wasn't sure if they were trying to get to him or arguing with each other.

Why did it have to be him? Out of all the Jess' and their partners in the world it had to be them. His chest seized again but nothing came up. I guess she did say her friend was in town visiting for a week. His legs felt like jelly, he gripped the sink tighter in hopes of holding himself up. He looked up at the mirror, examining his face. The first thing he noticed, his lips were clear, not a stem, petal or flower in sight. They're gone. He glanced at his arms and hands. Clear.

"YOU DID WHAT?" Kara's voice was clear through the others and his head snapped towards the locked door.

He heard a muffled male voice. He couldn't make out the words.

"You toyed with his emotions, Anthony. What the fuck is wrong with you?" In her two months of living with him, he'd never heard Taryn yell, but he made a mental note to never get on her bad side.

He stood, taking shaky steps towards the door. He opened it quietly, leaning on it for support. The scene in front of him, his friends arguing with each other across the living area. He noticed Jess was standing away from it all, she looked ashamed and disappointed. Their eyes met and he gave her a little smile.

'It's not your fault.' he mouthed.

She shook her head, quietly making her way over to him, unbeknownst to the others. "Hi Max. I'm so sorry." Her voice was quiet and laced with regret.

"You didn't know. Nobody did." His voice was hoarse.

She helped him over to the breakfast bar.

"So what happened. Because he said he kissed you, but that's all he remembers."

Max looked down at the bench, "I don't. I don't want to think about that night anymore. I want to put what happened in the past, move on." He looked at her, "But if you're worried he cheated on you, he didn't, that happened at the party you guys met at. I shouldn't have let him do anything. I wasn't drunk, he was. I am just as much at fault as he is, if not more."

"That's okay, I won't pry. I'm just glad you're okay. He was really worried about you, you know? Genuinely, I don't know what he'd do without you or Ze. I don't think he'd be very happy."

He smiled, "Yeah. In some timeline we worked out but I guess this isn't then and you know what-" he felt something tickling the back of his throat, he coughed and out fell a small sunflower into hi hand.

She raised an eyebrow as they both glanced across the room at the others who'd noticed Max was no longer locked away.

"I wouldn't have it any other way." He smiled fondly and Jess gave his shoulder a pat.

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