This idea that has been going around in my head, it isn't really much but it's been a while since I updated. I have zero motivation for my other stories so I hopes this kind of kick me back into writer mode. I hope you like it.
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Chapter 779, January 2013
There is a family who live in small damp flat, on a council estate, in Hollyoaks Village. It is made up of a father, a biological son, a non-biological daughter and a gay lover.
This unconventional unit is built on a foundation of criminal activity, violence and secretes. They also have forgiveness, understanding and most importantly love.
It is no less of a family.
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Chapter 892, March 2013
The man has laid everything bare, there are no more secretes. The roles have reversed and not for the first time, it is the 22 year old who has to be the stronger one.
They will not dwell on the horrendousness of past, they will grow and move past it together. The homophobic, psychotic thug and the scrawny ex-scally father of two will finally have their happy ever after.
This is the end.
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Chapter 355, December 2011
The blue-eyed, raven-haired man has been released from prison. He has grown a beard and wears casual clothes. He harbours feelings of betrayal and being let down by the boy that should have known him better.
The man has built up his walls, higher than they have ever been before. He cuts out the beautiful Mancunian boy, is indifferent and uninterested.
This is not the end.
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Chapter 203, July 2011
It has been ten months. Ten months of bitter kisses, flaming arguments, passionate nights and blue bruises. It takes ten moths for the older man to be brave enough to utter those three words.
"I love you."
The boy and the man can be together.
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Chapter 204, July 2011
The man's wife arrives, the lies and secretes are re-established. It is a short-lived reunion.
The boy vows not to go back into the shadows.
The boy and the man are not together for 16 months.
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Chapter 1, August 2010
It is their first encounter, the boy is cocky and demands a job, earning himself a punch from the club manager. While the manager does not take being blackmailed well he begrudgingly employs the smug boy.
This is the beginning.
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Chapter 439, May 2012
The boy opens a small deli and starts a relationship with a quirky American. He is finished making up reasons to give the Irishman just one more chance. It makes no sense to put your heart in hands that tremble, to make someone the centre of your universe when he cannot even accept you in public.
He only wishes that he were spiteful enough to not care about him anymore, to mean it when he says 'I hate you'.
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Chapter 89, February 2011
Loving this man leaves him black and blue, bruises on his chin, bloody lips and broken ribs. He has a way of shrinking the strength and the courage in him.
The boy is stronger than his appearance would suggest, he is a fighter and will not stay down. He is an expert at putting himself back together, just for the stitches of bravery that hold him together to be unravelled, again.
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Chapter 911, June 2013
The Irishman is no longer here, but the ripples of his existence can still be seen in the boy. You can see the outline of his name etched onto the boy's heart, his fingerprints are all over his soul and the memory of his face haunts him everywhere he goes.
The boy is 23 years old, the boy is now a man and has lived through more pain and tragedy than most people can even comprehend.
He lashes out and self-destructs just to see if he is really still here. He is a man, a man waiting for the day that he dies from a broken heart.
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Chapter 467
They wake together, miles away from home, across the Irish Sea. The bullshit and all the reasons why it shouldn't or can't happen are a thing of the past. They say 'I love you' and go to bed together and wake up ready for forever.