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Luna Hale, Chapter 25

I don't understand how I'm expected to move on after that.

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OTP: Maximoff Hale and Farrow Redford Keene from the Like Us series by Krista and Becca Ritchie.

Pairing: Luna Hale x Paul Donnelly

Fandom: Like Us Series [ Krista & Becca Ritchie ]

Word Count: 3,277

Summary: luna finds out about donnelly's rough past, and they talk about it. based on 'bonus scene #24: halloween party aftermath (farrow)' from kirsta and becca ritchie's patreon account. [trigger warning for mentions of past drug abuse]

“I lower my voice to a deep whisper. ‘You really want to spend another month, two months, or year seeing your client snort coke? What’s more painful: watching that shit or losing Beckett as a client?’ I don’t mention that Beckett could quit using for him.

Donnelly doesn’t believe he will since Beckett won’t even quit for his twin brother.

He rubs the back of his neck. ‘I dunno. The first one, I guess.’

Oscar pats his shoulder. ‘You want to talk to him with us?’

He stares haunted at the floor, then shakes his head. ‘Nah, I can’t.’ His eyes ping from me to Oscar. ‘Will you guys just do it?’”

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Luna wasn’t one to gossip. She was fantastic at keeping secrets, and a great listener to those who needed as ear because they knew that what they told her would never be heard by another soul. And actually, she hated gossip because both her and her family have been the ridicule of many a tabloid over the years. She always tried to avoid gossip in her private life—that, at least, she could control—but this wasn’t something that she could ignore. She’s tried, tried to push it to the back of her mind, but all she can think about are her parents and how they’ve dealt with something similar. She can’t stop thinking about how even though they’ve overcome their addictions and are happy and healthy today, they didn’t use to be. They used to be in a really dark place, and she hates to think that Donnelly may have been in the same boat.

She didn’t mean to eavesdrop the other night, truly she didn’t. She knew that it wasn’t her place, but once she’d heard Donnelly’s name through the crack in the door, she couldn’t help but linger. Over the past few weeks, she’s noticed his strange behavior—though he’s likely always behaved this way and she’s just now close enough to him to be able to notice that it’s decidedly not normal—and she was desperate for some kind of explanation. Donnelly’s always been an extremely private person about the things that matter, something that she wouldn’t have expected of him given almost everything about him, and getting any real information out of him about his life was worse than pulling teeth. So, when she’d heard that fated line come out of Oscar’s mouth— “his parents made him smoke meth when he was fourteen”—so many things about him fell into place.

She doesn’t know if he was ever addicted to it—meth, that is—but she has enough tabs open on her laptop to know what the statistics are. That even if he hated drugs, and never wanted to take them again after he was forced to the first time, chances are that he did it anyway. She was aware that both of his parents were in jail, but now she knew why and she couldn’t help but think that she was better off in the dark because she’s had a constant pit in her stomach ever since. Now, she can’t unlearn these details about him, and she isn’t sure how to handle the fact that he doesn’t know that she knows. (Luna didn’t even want to get into what she now knew about Beckett—that was a whole other beast.)

Luna snapped her laptop closed and groaned as she rolled over onto her back. Staring at the springs of the bunk above her—and at the plastic glow in the dark stars that she’s tied to the wiring—she couldn’t think of how to handle any of this.

“Sulli?” Luna asked. Her cousin, presumably popping out her headphones at the sound of Luna’s voice, was on the bunk above her. “I have a hypothetical that I need your expertise with.”

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