honey, I will go down with this ship till it's at rock bottom
Mishaps (Tom Robinson (DapperMrTom)/Santiago Massa)
Title: Mishaps
Author: Crazy_Comet_97
Tagline: If only he knew how it came to this - both of them staring at eachother as bewildered as someone would be in this situation.
After all, it’s not every day you find your colleague arse up in a toilet after not attending work in person for almost 2 weeks, he supposed. Much less find that said colleague pregnant with your baby at the same time.
Word Count: 4,497
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54844345
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Wrapped Fics #4
Thankyou to @cloud-obsessed-infp for this request!
#4 - Narlie, 37 (Too Hot To Be This Hungover by Trevi Moran)
[Good god, I just read HS5 and this song is perfect for the amount of angst I am feeling right now hehe]
{TW: Alcoholism}
This is bullshit, complete and utter bullshit. Usually, it would have taken tons of Prozac to make him this breathless.
Then again, he’s not exactly 17 anymore, nor has his charcoal heart burned to embers either, so maybe it’s not such a surprise when he realises he’s been hunched over the toilet for about an hour dry heaving like he was chasing a high he could barely visualise as he couldn’t exactly open his eyes right now.
He fucking hates change, he’d seriously rather be chained down than deal with change and it’s been kind of a mess every time so it’s not like he’s not in the right to think that has his head falls into the bowl again with a pitiful clink. He’s seriously only just gotten into a good rhythm with his body after months of therapy, he’s too hot to be this hungover.
He wasn’t like this, once, but when Nick had life for uni, he kind of…spiralled. Running away from everything and pretending he wasn’t sick of the truth, sick of losing friends to life and wondering where they were while he stayed cooped up and head swimming from copiously increasing amounts of alcohol that he was way too young to be consuming. FaceTime and hiding empty bottles behind full ones could only last so long before they imploded and Charlie Spring knew that all too well, staring into his bloodshot eyes and ashen skin though the bathroom mirror, the calendar loudly and humiliatingly mocking him in Nick’s absence.
God, it was already fucking October, only a few weeks till Nick would be home for the family, seeing him in person, seeing how truly shit he looked and hearing from others how he was behaving - maybe this really was a sign it was time to get sober. He couldn’t let Nick come home for the holidays and see him struggling, spaced out and unresponsive.
Then again, maybe just maybe one more drink would fix it. There was that song lyric, something from Rita Ora, bouncing around in his crowded head, the burn of whiskey touching his lips registering all too late as that same headache from earlier faded into a kaleidoscope of colours and noise and listlessness that he’d come to embrace.
He would get sober tomorrow, that’s what he told himself as the world waved and wrapped around him. He could get sober tomorrow, it would be over tomorrow, Nick would be here soon and everything would be okay….wouldn’t it?
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Master Post: Wrapped Fics #1, #2, #3
Thankyou to @ucannotkillmeinawaythatmatters for every single one of these. My playlist (and writer's block) thanks you!
#1 - Steddie, 15 (Outsiders by Against The Current)
#2 - First Prince, 24 (Freezing by Mimi Webb)
#3 - Narlie, 89 (Bois Lie (feat. Machine Gun Kelly) by Avril Lavigne)
~1~
Steve never thought being disowned would be a good thing. The Harringtons, his ancestors, had been privileged, a working family made of old money that had built most of Hawkins's buildings and even owned them one time or another.
Steve had expectations put upon him, a legacy and worse, the family name to live up to and while he’d never done a decent job of it, losing it was a new experience. He’d do it all over again if it meant Eddie would still take him like he already has.
God, Eddie. Eddie was a true outsider to Steve when they first met, now they’re sharing a bed and a life Steve only glimpsed in teenage angst fueled dreams, Steve now being nameless and Eddie fearing people still, both damaged beyond repair.
They had always felt alone and unloved in the world, everyone around them golden while they trudged through black and blue and hurting till now. Now, when every broken bone Eddie once had below the surface has healed and Steve no longer has to tell lies to save his reputation or live in broken walls that never held him as tightly as Eddie does when they’re sleeping in Wayne’s trailer late at night as the moon shines through the trees.
They might be outsiders now, Steve a rebel and Eddie still a freak, but they’re free. They aren’t hiding anymore, their true selves out in the open for all to see.
The others/ They don’t know what they’re missing.
~2~
Alex has never felt so cold in his life in this moment and he’s been in England, his face a mask of indifference as he views the recent call list on his phone to see Henry’s WhatsApp number in a list of the same digits going on for endless scrolling before it disappears.
The Latino never thought he would have to be the cold one in the relationship. He’d tried, he’d /tried/ to put up with Henry, but the constant rules, the hiding, it was too much.
He couldn’t keep sneaking behind everyone’s back just to get his cock sucked every one in a while before he was ruthlessly tossed like trash away from the prince and told to pretend like nothing happened. They weren’t together, yet Henry acts so plainly like they were and it makes him hurt under the ice he’s put over his emotions.
At one point, Alex had fallen for that delusion, yes, he’ll admit that, but he’d seen though it now - how Henry only called when no one was around and made sure everyone was none the wiser and not getting a hint, any hint, that him and Alex were more than the “close personal friends” that they were made to be.
Henry said the last time they saw each other in Paris, when Alex instead of making love to him pushed him away, that everybody makes mistakes, but Alex knew that this “mistake” could hit hard and hurt other people than just them. It makes his decision to tell him point blank that he’s leaving, come home, shut that door and swallow the keys even more brutal, but he had to. Not just for Henry to get the hint that he wanted more, deserved more, but so Henry would see with a push that living his life in the shadows and on other people’s opinions and time weren’t worth it.
It more than likely looked like Alex ran for the hills or in more proper terms, abandoned ship to the other, given he’s not answering his calls and declining his invitations, but he had to be ruthless. It was cold, so very goddamn cold and very not like him in retrospect, but he had to do like Henry had - cage his heart for the foreseeable future and work on his mother’s campaign without interruption and without Henry’s continued commentary on his life.
It wasn’t just cold anymore once he closed his phone - it was downright freezing.
~3~
Normally, Charlie Spring doesn’t like to get into fights. Much less fights that he didn’t expect to even get into in the first place, but now he’s here, broken objects around him and the current villain - his supposed to be boyfriend Nick Nelson - looming over the other side of the room as they both breathe heavily, cheeks stained red and tears on both their faces, a blowout fight having commenced due to several factors.
First of all, Charlie cheated on him. Yes, he knows that’s horrible and shameful it’s all on him, but it’s really not given Nick was no fucking saint either. The man had a tongue like a razor blade and lately, had been lying straight to his face about several things, the comments and passive responses feeling like Nick was twisting a knife into his back and carving his name all over Charlie like he was owned and not loved like he had been. Like he used to be.
On top of that, Charlie had become anxious of late and had to make up little stories in order to cover up everything he’d been doing off to the side, due to Nick just obviously not caring for him anymore despite pretending to be faithful and forthright with him, just telling him what he wants and weaving words to create magic in Charlie’s ears before it disappears and leaves him hollow. Charlie wanted revenge and he’d gotten it, the only problem with it was that with telling the truth, the illusion shatters.
Last night had been a particularly bad spell, as that’s what had led to now - Charlie’s guilt making him talk way too much and no longer able to continue doing “fake shit” as Nick had coined it during the hours-long row that had now put them in a standoff where they had no idea where to go from because both of them never told each other the truth, neither of them saying sorry and throwing everything in their way to avoid it.
Soon enough, Nick, heavy with regret and hunched over with the pains of sadness and guilt of losing his patience and knowing he’s caused all of this (though Charlie’s sure his friends would say Charlie was the bad guy while his own would say Nick was) stares him down and Charlie watches forlorn as he leaves the room, the sound of the door slamming upstairs making his heart stop with it’s echo and suffer before he falls to the floor, the remnants of what was happiness and acceptance in pieces around him.
It doesn’t take a genius for someone like him to know that life as he knows is over for good.
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