Title: Slipping into the veil (1/4)
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence, Character Death, Mentioned Sex
Summary: Roach's world is turning red. Eventual Ghost/Roach
Roach's world is turning red.
When Mama died she called him Luke, eyes tender and soft and longing for a son better than he was, stronger than he was, and dead before he was born. He just nodded his head and didn't say anything past his tears and watched her slip away into the river of death to be judged by a feather.
Gary gets put in foster home after foster home; despite always being the fastest, always being the smartest, always being the best, no one wants to keep him and that hard exterior he puts up around prospective families awed by his statistics and his good looks becomes more and more jaded.
He doesn't really understand family, not since he was little and his Dad was choking on his own vomit as his mother watched impassively from the other side of the room.
Of course maybe his family hadn't even existed then.
Everyone at school likes him enough, but there's something about him, something off in the way his smile is tight and his eyes cold and even though he dates girls, he's always watching boys. It's unnerving and the students don't know how to handle it. Sure, they let him sit with them during lunch, but that's only because he won gold for the high school meet last week and the fact that he's currently dating the prettiest girl this shitty town has to offer.
When they have sex, she tells him she loves him and he moves just right so that the words break up before she can say them, "I love," and a gasp and a shout and he really is perfect at everything, she thinks dazedly. Gary pulls away from her after he cums and leaves to the bathroom for a shower, stickily handling the condom with distaste.
Rumors spread behind his back and the prettiest girl breaks up with him three weeks after asking him out.
The sex probably isn't that good –at least he didn't think so- and Gary is surprised that it lasted this long and despite the way she cried when she told him how much she loved him, wouldn't it be nice if he changed just a little bit for her and if he couldn't do it then he didn't love her, she's out with another athlete two days later. That's alright though, because in a few weeks he's enlisting and leaving his very bland small town life behind.
Six weeks in basic training, he laughs for the first time in a very long time.
This is a sort of memories flashback before Roach dies and will be updated at my leisure, so please don't get too excited over it. :( I just have this first chapter written out. I'm expecting there to be about four chapters, but there is a very slim possibility it might grow depending on my mood.