A short AU I've thought up. Lukas sees things. Some are true, and most are not.
How are you to know everything in this life isn't all just a dream?
When you wake up each morning and have to question whether the cat licking your face is there or imagined, how are you to trust your face in the mirror, or the voice that sounds like your brother's calling you to breakfast?
Lukas has lived seventeen years without a definite thing in his life. Without a hand to hold when he was afraid because the voices from under the bed were more real than the cat. Without a smile to reassure him he could get up and he would be safe. He has had to question everything. Everyone.
But there is one person.
One piece of solid ground in his life that is quickly crumbling beneath his feet.
He is real.
He knows it.
Mathias's hands are strong. They hold him when the faces show up and they wander over him like water when his skin feels too tight and too wrong to really be his. They trace scars from fights with the creatures that pop up in the night and show him that life doesn't need to be rough. They show him that it can be gentle.
Mathias's lips are soft. They have touched every inch of him, whispering reassurances and praises. Promises at three in the morning when he can't sleep, that someday, they'll leave.
Mathias is gentle, and kind. He is what the world is not.
He is loud sometimes and his voice pierces through his mind as he sleeps. But his voice is also soft, singing worlds into existence above him as he drifts off.
Mathias is his lighthouse on the stormy sea… His savior… His life… His everything.
In a world of questionable things, he has never once questioned him.
And that is a beauty in its own.
That is love.
But in a world of questionable things, you should never feel safe.
Because one day it will come and rip him away.
The monsters, the sobs, the screams and the darkness… they are real.
And Mathias—his light… his love—is not.
Falls over haaaaa... Yup. Reviews would be much appreciated! 3
