mrpublicity: (Frown [Blue])
1.15. "The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control, you're not."
Grey's Anatomy

Co-written with [livejournal.com profile] cameronpreston
[Simultaneous to THIS]

When Cameron returned from the bathroom, where he had literally just sat in one of the cubicles on the closed toilet for close to two hours lost in his own thoughts to try and just think rationally, Aiden was alone at Pat’s bedside. He had Pat’s pink iPod in his ears, his head resting tiredly on his arm that was lying beside Pat’s stomach. Cameron didn’t want to startle him, so he moved slowly to take the seat beside him, giving him enough warning of his presence. Pat looked much the same; small, pale, thin, sick. The new drugs pumping through his system were taking their toll. He wasn’t awake often, and a couple of the times he was, he spent vomiting from side effects until they had to give him another drug to stop the vomiting. It felt like a vicious cycle. With every needle, and poke, and prod Cameron witnessed the doctors giving his twin, it felt like they were more and more ripping his heart out by the bloody roots and dumping it on the bed beside Pat.

Aiden caught sight of the movement in his peripheral vision and lifted his head to offer Cameron the faintest hint of a tired smile, reaching up to take the iPod from his ears... )

All muses referenced with permission and are from the [livejournal.com profile] princeton2nyc universe


Word Count | 2,315
mrpublicity: (Look away [White])
7.7. "So - you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't gamble. What do you do then? C'mon Michael, there must be something for you to confess! A little wank on the sofa during Baywatch isn't a mortal sin!"
| Cracker

[Follows THIS and THIS]

Aiden’s eyes had been on his Martini glass nursed in his hands when Pat excused himself with a soft kiss to Aiden’s lips for a quick trip to the men’s room. They weren’t even one drink in and Aiden found himself left alone with The Other Twin. He lifted his head and offered a polite smile to the other man across the table. He was so much like Pat, yet so different at the same time. The eyes were the same, the height was the same, the strawberry blond hair colour was the same, the accent was the same. But where Pat was slight and feminine in his build, Cameron was built, stocky and masculine. Pat’s hair was longer, falling in his face with dyed pink tips, and Cameron’s was short back and sides, darker in colour due to its cropped length. Pat had a feminine edge to his tone of voice which wasn’t there in Cameron. They might be identical twins, but years of living different lives of gay and straight had seem them become very different in their adulthood. Even down to their contrasting choice of drinks, Pat with an elaborate Mocktail complete with pink umbrella and Cameron opting for a Corona beer. Still, the inseparable twin closeness was there and that was more than evident now in the way Cameron was looking at Aiden.

“You don’t need me to tell you I will kill you if you hurt him,” Cameron finally spoke up. Until this moment, the conversation had been light, mostly between the brothers as they caught up and Aiden more than willing to blend nervously into the background. But now, with Pat taking a wiz, he couldn’t exactly not speak to the twin and the conversation seemed to be about to go in exactly the way he anticipated it. “And I’m not exaggerating.”

“I don’t blame you,” Aiden returned, clearing his throat... )

Pat is [livejournal.com profile] sexyinscrubs and used with permission


Word Count | 1,080

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