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and for once, you let go (of your fears and your ghosts) by foxjournals
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
04 Sep 2024
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When he reaches Alex, he crouches down to his knees, and he focuses on the way the blades just barely cut into the skin on the back of his thighs through his pants rather than the shaking of his hands at his sides.
“Alex?” Henry says, leaning his head down so he can maybe get in eye level with Alex, but Alex keeps his eyes firmly shut and angled down towards the ground, his curls plastered across his sweaty forehead, and it takes everything in Henry not to gently move the hair from his face.
“Alex, hey it’s – it’s Henry. Henry Fox?” Henry tries, this time a little louder, and he cringes at the awkwardness of it all. He thinks Alex must hear him though if the slight wince that rolls through Alex’s body is to go off anything.
Or: Hockey player Alex who gets injured and is back on the ice for the first time since said injury and isn't dealing with it well mentally, and figure skater Henry who comes into the rink one morning and finds Alex keeled over on the ice having a panic attack