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arsenicjade (R)
Howie gets broken. Nick has to put him back together.
God it breaks my heart -- only to fix it again. Howie and Nick is a pairing I love, my favourite backstreet boy style, actually. And to find a good, long, excellent story about them is wonderful.
"When I was fifteen and I hit my head on the bed while wrestling with you I got a bump that didn't go down for two weeks and Kevin had me tested for cancer. When Kevin got the flu two years ago and it developed into a cough, AJ wanted him hospitalized for pneumonia. When AJ broke up with Katya and didn't cheer up for almost a month, you tried to get him to see a shrink about anti-depressants. We're all more jumpy about each other than a monkey strung out on Jolt."