AmeIce
(Student/Human AU)
The phone sits alone on the desk, taunting the teen. Even in the dark of his lonely room Emil can make it out perfectly. It calls to him even if tries his hardest to ignore it and what the blonde haired junior had said to him all week.
It would be so easy for others to make the call, to let another person in but he's not most. He's always let his demons take ahold, alone for him to bear. So why let the loud boastful man in?
"Call me any time kay? Dude you totally got my number and I don't care if it's like midnight."
Each word repeats over and over in his mind until he's on the verge of tears. Why would the upper classman care about him? Who is he but just another face in a sea of hundreds?
"Please?" The inner voice says.
Finally Emil can't take the voice or the suffocating darkness any longer. So after two rings a sleepy voice answers. "Hello?"
For a second Emil doesn't know what to say until he says the only thing he can think of. "You said to call whenever I needed to talk. So I know it's late and you were sleeping but, I just wanted to hear someone else's voice for a moment." He sits up on his bed looking down at his feet.
He expects the junior to sigh or worse hang up but to his surprise Alfred answers back. "I get it dude, it's a three am kind of thing so what's keeping you up?"
"Really?" Emil's voice cracks as he reaches out to hug his stuffed puffin to his chest, thankful that none are awake to see him. "But,"
"Anything you say stays between us." Alfred sits up turning on his bedside lamp; once his eyes adjust they turn to the scars etched deep into his wrist. Battle scars he calls them, each fight he fought alone so while he hears the pain across the line he won't give up on the freshman even if it means a late night call every night. "And I'm happy you called."