I have been pro Thomas/Katie since the first episode, and I wrote this right after the finale episode aired, but forgot about it…and so here we are. The characters are all Skins, and the story title is the song "Runaway" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Runaway
Run, run run away
Lost, lost, lost my mind
Thomas ran; everyday he ran. For his school, for his home. For his mother.
"So proud." She had told him the day he left. "Je suis fier de toi. And your father would be to."
"Merci, Mama." He had said, not remembering the last time she had been proud of him; lately, it had been his crazy English friends she had focused on. Not him.
It wasn't until his second week of school that he knew Panda was there. He ran into her, it was just a normal day. He was homesick, but that was nothing new. His real home was very far away. Farther then England even.
"Hello, Tommo." Panda had said, smiling at him.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well…um. I sort of you know, go here."
And it was so easy, for them to fall back together in this new place. A small piece of just one of the lives he had left behind.
Because he loved Panda, he really did.
But, it was not her he saw in his dreams. It was a very different person, a very different girl. Which a much redder head.
So Thomas ran.
His coaches called him dedicated.
His teammates called him fast.
Pandora said he was a great athlete.
But Thomas knew the truth; he was avoiding.
Avoiding the girl with the red hair, who made his head spin, and his heart ache. And he pushed all of that down, because it was too much to deal with.
She was too much for him.
Beautiful. He had told her, but that didn't even begin to cover it.
He couldn't imagine Panda yelling "I'm Pandora fucking Moon!" At someone.
Thomas kept running.
After classes.
In the morning.
On the weekends.
Because if he stopped; if he allowed himself to think about the girl he left behind, he would lose his mind.
So he ran. And ran, and ran away.