Lover, Please Stay
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Liam wonders how he can ever calm the scent of almost-leaving from this boy he's accidentally come to love.
Because Theo pulls away from him, always, before the yawning of the dawn, as if the things he dares to lay bare before Liam are too egregious to be left exposed into the daylight, and he doesn't know, can't possibly know how it drives another knife into Liam that even this must be a secret between them by natural consequence of the fact that everything else about Theo Raeken is a secret even to himself.
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- Part 1 of Lover, Please Stay
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Still not looking up at Theo, Liam whispers, “Theo, why do you--why do you always expect me to express how I care about you through anger?”
Theo clenches his jaw and trains his eyes on the monotonous view of nighttime outside his window. “Maybe because I know you have the emotional bandwidth of a fucking dime,” he lies.
Liam shakes his head. “That’s not it.” A rustle as he rolls his head to look at Theo sideways. His bangs fall into his eyes and he doesn’t shake them away. “I think you don’t understand that I can be angry, but not angry at you.”
“I don’t think there’s really a distinction to be made.”
“Theo,” Liam breathes like it’s punched out of him. “You almost dying is not a reason for you to be punished.”
And then suddenly Theo becomes aware of the scent of Liam’s tears.
“Don’t cry,” he whispers, shutting his eyes. “Please don’t cry.” I can’t handle it.
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- Part 2 of Lover, Please Stay