This is my first ever BTR story but my best friend is completely obsessed with this show so I thought I would give it a try. I have a few one shots saved up for this pairing if anybody is interested.
They are both terribly selfish, and that is why they deserve each other.
She learned through years of being in this industry that if you want something you have to reach out and grab it so tightly in your hands that it can't escape.
(Of course this lesson comes with the knowledge that sometimes when you hold things too tightly they break. She knows that sometimes those broken pieces can leave scars on your hands that make some boys too scared to hold them.)
He has learned that despite being born with the advantages of wealth and looks he still has to fight hard. Harder than Kendall who is a natural talent, Logan who has other dreams, and Carlos who is too carefree to land anywhere but on his feet.
(He has these mangled hands to show for his fight. Every twisted knuckle is a reminder that his fight is not over, that if anything it's just getting started.)
He comes to her with his plastic smiles and ugly hands and it makes her smile. She smiles because his ugly hands and her ugly hands look beautiful together. Twisted together like legs in bed sheets they tell a story. What she sees is power and battle and images of great wars behind their eyes and in the webbing between their entwined fingers, scenes that show how they will never ever give up. Not on the fame that they can almost taste, not on the families that never seem to fully believe in them and not on the terribly selfish love that they both deserve so much.
She waits for him with hands out stretched, always pulling him in and holding too tightly. He is stronger than most though, years of fighting have made him resilient to the pressure of her hands squeezing his with all she has.