the laugh that comes out of tommy startles even himself, his knuckles white against the steering wheel as they thrum to the rhythm of the road infront of them.
“listen? you’re the- you’re the first thing that’s made sense all my life and you wanted me to leave? hell no.”
“fucking- oh- god- okay-“
he was evidently - much smaller in stature compared to theo, but that hadn’t stopped tommy from wrapping an arm around the man’s shoulders, blood warm against his hand as he lugged him into his flat. a small one-bedroom thing that barely housed-
he didn’t answer right away. he just stood there, his large frame entirely filling the doorway, his chest heaving, heavy with the thick, metallic fluid. a drop of dark crimson ran down the side of his jaw, dripping off his chin and onto the ground with a sickening splat.
—
as tommy adjusted his grip, practically dragging theo the last few remaining steps towards his couch that had seen better days, and a suspicious stain that he had long stopped questioning.
the boy swallowed hard for a moment , wiping his hands over his jeans before immediately -
tommy had flinched back faster than even he could bear as normal at the sight of theo, drenched in…blood? syrup? he didn’t know, nor did he exactly want to.
“fucking hell man, who pissed you off? a bear?”
| pushing my own agenda of tommy being scarily good at the piano, he’s always been so fast that it’s the one thing that actually makes him slow down and think.