~♥turnfreewood♥~

Pairing: Ryan/Meg/Gavin

Summary: All they want to hear is his heart beating - but so far the only thing they’re greeted with is silence.

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Ichor: (n) the fluid which flows like blood in the veins of the gods.

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It had been bad before - but it had never been like this.

Ryan had never scrubbed his face-paint off until his face was raw and Meg had never been so quiet and still.

They didn’t touch each other as they sat on Geoff’s couch – their boss nowhere in sight (probably wanting to hide his terror from them).

Meg is staring out of the window and she thinks, ‘If Ryan wasn’t here – I’d fly right out of it. If they tell me he’s dead and Ryan wasn’t here… Neither would I.’

Ryan’s knuckles are going white from where he is gripping the arm of the couch. He is running details through his mind again and again and again.

What had he done wrong? He knows it was his fault – Gavin was his love to protect. His. And now he can’t get the sight of Gavin’s car flying through the air, the flames, the blood and God – her screams.

She’s going mad in the silence. She just needs to know whether or not her golden boy is okay, whether she’ll ever hear that British accent, kiss those lips – oh she would give everything to hear him laugh.

Ryan hears her choked sob and his composure shatters. He’s grabbing her, dragging her into his chest and burying his face into her hair. They shake with their grief and their sorrow and their heart-wrenching fear that they’ll never be the perfect three again.

They need him.

If his heart won’t beat, then theirs won’t either.

!!! friend i have SO MANY thoughts about fahc turnfreewood. i have a lot of feelings about turnfreewood in general but oh man gta verse is wonderful for every pairing

i’m a pretty big fan of meg and gavin being together and then both of them looking at this huge, masked, incredibly dangerous and infamous criminal and going “he’s adorable and he’s ours now” 

and ryan is very confused and a little overwhelmed but also totally rolling with it

one time ryan and gavin get into a competition that mostly involves buying meg increasingly more expensive and ridiculous gifts until meg is like “why is there a very small yacht in my swimming pool” and ryan has to be like “well it seemed like a good idea at the time”

(the fact that ryan is able to out-ridiculous-purchase gavin “gold plated sunglasses” free is pretty impressive in and of itself)

meg and gavin argue a lot over who gets to use ryan for piggyback rides

meg gets a lot of “please come bail us out” calls at two in the morning

which she responds to in varying degrees of haste depending on her mood/how annoying gavin and ryan have been lately

([shows up fifteen minutes late to the police station with starbucks])

ryan is probably the biggest, blushy, giggly idiot when it comes to gavin and meg and they KNOW it and they TOTALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE of it

you think the face paint is for hiding identity

you are wrong

“We gotta stop spending so much time together.” ~ Meg Turney