AN: Because I've grown recently super attached to Brad/Janet/Frank as an OT3 and I need more fanfiction action with them, so I thought I'd just write one myself.
Feedback is loved and much appreciated!
Freak
"What are you, some kind of a queer?"
"He doesn't like sports!"
"You're not strong, be more like your brother!"
"Be a man!"
"Why don't we set up a date for you with that nice girl?"
Brad Majors will never and could never live up to anyone's expectations. He's always tried to be normal, always hoped to fit in.
He's managed…But always only just….
He's always felt as though he were just on the cusp of being not right.
It's only years later, after everything that happened, then Brad is able to see why he was so utterly and unavoidably attracted to him, right from the start.
Frank is everything that Brad wants to be…
Well no, maybe not in the same way exactly, but in that he is so free and doesn't care who knows it.
Brad wants to be that.
Then later as the man breaks down in tears, his loneliness and vulnerability clear on his face, Brad realizes; again and again.
They are the same.
Both freaks and outcast, in their own respective ways.
He remembers still late at night, how he had felt so strongly then, in those few moments, while tears streamed down the aliens face.
He remembers thinking specifically to himself, his hands shaking to reach out to him.
How can we leave him here…?
Even now that the danger has passed, even when he can feel the warmth of their bodies against his, Brad's fists still tighten even now, to think of it.
AN: Slow to start, hope you enjoyed!
Mia (:
