DRABBLE: Stages (QaF!Michael, PG)
Title: Stages
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Pairing: Canon
Rating: PG?
Word Count: 250 words
Summary: Michael's family is dying.
Additional Notes: ccharlotte was reading too many cancer!Brian fics. There's a logical connection there somewhere, I'm sure. :|
Michael's family is dying.
He doesn't think about it very often, though, if at all, because Ben works out, Hunter still outruns him by a mile, and they finished Liberty Ride together.
It's a thought that startles him when Hunter complains about the winter cold or Ben sneezes, and then he thinks about it, but only for a while.
Because when Michael imagines the future he sees him and Ben with white hair and grandchildren.
*
Michael's family is dying.
There was a draft in the apartment and nobody remembers anymore who left the window open, but three days in and Hunter's caught a cold.
"Here, take some vitamins," Michael says.
"Have some water."
"Orange juice?"
He breaks down with a fever, and it isn't just the flu anymore.
Ben catches it too.
"We'll be fine," he tells Michael, and Michael asks the doctor if he has a stronger prescription to give.
*
Michael's family is dying.
The doctor asks to talk to Michael in private, and when he comes out he heads straight to Brian's apartment.
"Fuck them," Brian says, arm slung around him as they both lay amid broken furniture. "We're all the family we fucking need."
Michael's lips are tight and he takes another joint, knuckles shaking and bleeding. He breathes it in deep and holds it until it burns like fucking hell.
"Fuck them," he lies.
*
Michael's family is dying, and nobody knows what to say.
He locks himself in a room, shooting down hugs or offers of kind words with a deadened look in his eyes.
Even Brian says nothing.
*
Michael's family is dead.
Fandom: Queer as Folk
Pairing: Canon
Rating: PG?
Word Count: 250 words
Summary: Michael's family is dying.
Additional Notes: ccharlotte was reading too many cancer!Brian fics. There's a logical connection there somewhere, I'm sure. :|
Michael's family is dying.
He doesn't think about it very often, though, if at all, because Ben works out, Hunter still outruns him by a mile, and they finished Liberty Ride together.
It's a thought that startles him when Hunter complains about the winter cold or Ben sneezes, and then he thinks about it, but only for a while.
Because when Michael imagines the future he sees him and Ben with white hair and grandchildren.
*
Michael's family is dying.
There was a draft in the apartment and nobody remembers anymore who left the window open, but three days in and Hunter's caught a cold.
"Here, take some vitamins," Michael says.
"Have some water."
"Orange juice?"
He breaks down with a fever, and it isn't just the flu anymore.
Ben catches it too.
"We'll be fine," he tells Michael, and Michael asks the doctor if he has a stronger prescription to give.
*
Michael's family is dying.
The doctor asks to talk to Michael in private, and when he comes out he heads straight to Brian's apartment.
"Fuck them," Brian says, arm slung around him as they both lay amid broken furniture. "We're all the family we fucking need."
Michael's lips are tight and he takes another joint, knuckles shaking and bleeding. He breathes it in deep and holds it until it burns like fucking hell.
"Fuck them," he lies.
*
Michael's family is dying, and nobody knows what to say.
He locks himself in a room, shooting down hugs or offers of kind words with a deadened look in his eyes.
Even Brian says nothing.
*
Michael's family is dead.