#ronanadam

Rating: Teen 


Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish

Additional Tags: 5+1, Fluff

Summary:

Everybody knows that Ronan loves Adam. Ronan knows he loves Adam, and he’s pretty sure that Adam knows that he’s loved, too.  But they’ve never said the words. They have other words, sure, just not that one, specific, stupidly important, word. 

Instead of ‘I love you’, they say:

“Call me when you get home.”

“Eat, you dumbass.”

“I changed your oil.”

“I dreamt of you last night.”

“Tamquam,” “alter idem.”

Still, the ‘L’ word. The string of three words that mean so much and nothing to them at the same time, hasn’t been said. They don’t need to say it, either. But Ronan, ever stubborn and determined, needs to say it. 

or: 5 Times Ronan Said 'I love you' Without Adam Hearing + The One Time Adam Said It

Word Count: 10k

Adam wakes, unpleasantly, to Ronan’s insistent nudging/slapping combo.

“What?”

Ronan doesn’t look at him, just points to the end of the bed where something small is rooting around under the blanket, his eyes steely with fear. Adam’s heart lurches as he scampers back against the headboard.

“I brought something back.”

“I swear to god if it’s evil crabs again—“

The Jaws theme plays loudly in Adam’s head as the dream thing moves clumsily toward them. Ronan finally has the gall to whip the blanket off the bed and bring them face to face.

The baby opossum, fuzzy and disoriented, squeaks and attempts to burrow into the fitted sheet. A terrifying thing to behold.

Adam snorts, and Ronan reaches toward it wondrously to lift it close to his face.

When Adam kissed him, it was every mile per hour Ronan had ever gone over the speed limit. It was every window-down, goose-bumps-on-skin, teeth-chattering-cold night drive. It was Adam’s ribs under Ronan’s hands and Adam’s mouth on his mouth, again and again and again. It was stubble on his lips and Ronan having to stop, to get his breath, to restart his heart. They were both hungry animals, but Adam had been starving for far longer.

I'm yet again here to analyze a singular word: widower. Mind you, this was more than 4 years before their engagement, and just over 1 year after they had been dating, and already in Ronan's head he was marrying Adam (and making Adam his widower). Ronan is hellbent on Adam being his first and last love, and he is not budging. Ronan gets the highest award for being a pathetic, yearning lover, and Adam deserves him so bad!

Also, can we talk about how the point of Ronan, a religious dude's, heaven is being with Adam? Like, he wants to spend the whole of eternity with this boy. Not only is Adam all Ronan sees when he imagines his future (glove scene at the barns), but Adam is also all he wants in heaven. Can we just let that sink in for a second... I don't think we talk about it enough.