RAISE ME UP AGAIN. // TAKE ME PAST THE EDGE. // I WANT TO SEE THE OTHER SIDE. // WON'T YOU SHOW ME WHAT IT'S LIKE?
au: ethan ( @taughtdefense / @thirdeldritch ) has never needed a reason to protect robby ( @taughtpain ). the soulbond handled that before johnny lawrence was even a name he knew.
but johnny comes to him anyway—not demanding, not bargaining, just asking to be enough—and the soulbond has already told ethan everything he needs to know—what robby carries, what johnny cost him, and what johnny has been trying to pay back ever since.
so ethan willingly drops his wards and opens something in himself that has never been open. unlocks whatever latent abilities had been sitting and waiting in the lawrence bloodline, because if robby's father is going to protect his son, he's going to actually be able to do it, and do it well.
the tether forms, and johnny walks away with something old living behind his sternum.
and anyone who touches what's his is going to find out exactly what that means.
or: an au where johnny becomes a warlock, backed by the third ever being in existence, to protect robby.
JUST LET ME BE ENOUGH. // MAKE IT MEAN SOMETHING. // JUST LET ME KEEP MY SON.
