ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ

"i'm right over 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, why can't you 𝒔𝒆𝒆 me?" @FSalahOfficial's personal bodyguard 🤍

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

ryan 'pay the price' price. enforcer for the toronto guardians. game changers verse, but open for crossovers. multiship. writer is 21+.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan squeezed his eyes shut tightly for a few moments and tried his very best to watch his breathing. deep inhales and slow exhales. but the feeling was ( everywhere ), so it would take tremendous effort to make it go away.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

yeah, he's stressed the fuck out and it's probably better if he's left alone for a while.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan had to force himself to stop pacing, in order to move over to fabian and sit down beside his bed. he took hold of fabian's hand, but his mind was still racing, his gaze distant and his breathing slightly heavier than usual.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial -- couldn't stop pacing, growing more and more tense, his head dragging him down more and more with every moment that passed.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan couldn't take it. the guilt of not being able to protect fabian from dallas, having been in the hospital for hours on no sleep and then that fucking message in the team groupchat. . .

how much more was he expected to carry before he'd break right in two?!

he --

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan's pacing the room back and forth and repeating it over and over again. it's like fabian's words didn't even reach him at all.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial "yeah, i am." ryan spoke, nodding. "thank you."

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

🙄

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan's gaze crept upward once more and the sight filled his chest with joy, to see fabian laugh so hard he was about to cry. "i should've worded it differently." he pulled an uncertain face, feeling socially awkward in the regard.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial if ryan could hold him exactly like that for the rest of his life, he would. but that was impossible.

and so, after quite a while, he pulled back.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial "okay, that. . . was to be expected." ryan spoke, his gaze dropping and shaking his head, but he chuckled himself too.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial the moment was incredibly grounding for ryan, allowing his mind to settle back down to a less chaotic state of being. some of the tension that had appeared in his body faded away gradually.

he could only settle like that with fabian. no one else.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan chuckled after fabian had said that. "is there anything about me that isn't soft?" fabian had also said that about his hand, after all.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan moved in closer and gently wound his arms around fabian, embracing him, hopefully without hurting him. as they hugged, his eyes fell shut.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan shook his head more and grinned, before moving over, so he could reach fabian better. then, he leant in and allowed for their lips to meet in a gentle kiss.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial "i love you too." fabian was his entire world, everything else be damned. hence why it was terrifying for ryan to hear that fabian thought another man was hot. his anxious brain couldn't take it.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan tried to tell him to take it easy multiple times, so fabian wouldn't upset his stomach, but it was no use. once fabian salah put his mind to things, he was unstoppable.

he shook his head. "you're gonna regret eating that fast laster."

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial "you can get a kiss after you've finished your food." ryan replied with a grin.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

he might. . . try an alcoholic drink tonight for a change.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial yeah, well, maybe deep down, ryan wasn't okay. but he wasn't going to stress fabian out even more by adding that onto his plate of things to deal with.

[ʀʏᴀɴ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ @P4YTHEPR1CE]

@FSalahOfficial ryan rolled his eyes and grinned, knowing exactly what fabian was trying to do. he leant in and took a bite from fabian's toast, before pulling back. fabian needed to get some food in him, so ryan wasn't going to take too much of it.