Thrown Off the Ice

by Taylor Fitzpatrick

“There’s something wrong with you,” Liam says, choked, and as soft as an admission of love, “There’s something broken.”

Yeah no shit

That he stops this now or he puts it in Liam’s hands to do what he will, because Liam’s more responsible than him in the only way it really counts, and Mike loves him, and Mike’s fucking sick of it, of loving him and not having him and not being able to blame anyone but himself for it, sickly grateful for any sign that Liam’s better off without him.

“I love you,” Liam says, and hangs up before he can hear, once again, Mike not saying it back.

Ffs Mike

I love you so fucking much, he doesn’t say, but he thinks it so goddamn hard he’s pretty sure Liam hears it anyway.

Just say the damn words, you're literally dying