A/N:
Because I've been listening to this song so much. I don't know why I feel like crying every time I hear it. But you should.
Based off Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...) by Panic! At The Disco. Yes, even the title...
Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...)
Ever since that night, he'd had just one regret to live through, and it was one of his favourite words.
Lately, they were all things that ended in the letter 'R'. Whisper. Sister. Quieter. Remember.
Christopher.
He wasn't a ghost in the way that Livvy was, but he was a ghost all the same. And this ghost seemed to be set on haunting him forever, an endless barrage of sound that plagued his thoughts and dreams. Sometimes, Ty felt like his head was in exhausted shambles, and that all he could do was tiptoe about, unable to do anything about the confusion and the pain.
He wished he could turn back time and explain, apologise, do something to convince him that he needed him, but something told him it would be like yelling in a house. Pointless and futile.
They used to be like a set of perfectly matching clocks, marching on in their own special timing and harmony. They were Sherlock and Watson, an unbeatable team, and nothing in the world could stop them.
But the cradle had splintered soon enough. They'd gone their separate ways, Kit to Devon and Ty to the Scholomance.
He'd told himself it was probably for the best, that this was the best-case scenario, but the truth was that if Kit was a perfume and perfume was a drug, he would be shooting himself up with it at an unhealthy frequency. But of course he couldn't do that - nothing and no one could make him feel that way again. Except Kit.
He had cared, but it had gone unnoticed, which would have meant that for the most part, it hadn't really existed in the first place. But he knew that wasn't true - it still hung in his heart like cobwebs in a corner, impossible to remove completely.
In the end, Ty had only one regret.
And that regret was Christopher Herondale.
But he couldn't live with it. He wouldn't let it end this way. Even if it didn't look like they were any good for each other. After all, no one thought that cowpox could be used to stop the spread of smallpox, and look what happened.
Kit might not know it, but he was playing Ty's heart like a drum, to a beat no one could hear except him. And others might regret not being able to let go, but for Ty, this was one beat he couldn't afford to lose. Though this was one show he wouldn't have wanted it to be a part of, he would see it through to the end.
Because ever since they met, Ty had already known - there was no way he would ever be able to let him go.