AARON LIVESY

-The Chase-

"Walk Away! "

Aaron sighed; he was in the middle of undressing to go in the shower. "Who is it?" he called out, which Flynn heard and with a wary expression he reached his arm across to the door and knocked again, louder.

Aaron rolled his eyes in frustration and pulled his t-shirt back on and walked over to answer the door. He quickly pulled down the handle and opened it, he frowned when he saw no one was there and he moved to close it again but he got the shock of his life when Flynn came into view and stepped into the doorway.

Once the shock left him, anger replaced it. "What the hell are you doing here?" Aaron raged through gritted teeth.

Flynn like he had told Debbie the previous day was prepared for this already. "I found out you were gunna be here so I thought it would be a good chance for us to sit down and talk" he said as he shut the door.

"Talk?" Aaron scoffed. "How dare you follow me?"

"It's a free country last time I checked"

"Yeah it is, but you're seriously pushing it with me Flynn, I can't stand to even look at you, whatever possessed you to follow me…" he sighed and turned away and walked back further into the room and Flynn followed.

"I have good instincts, many people do…" he explained and ran his tongue along his bottom lip as he watched Aaron pacing on the other end of the room. "I'm here because you're hurting"

Aaron scowled. "No I'm not!" he spat angrily.

"Physically maybe not as much now, granted yeah but…I'd place a very high bet that Jason isn't having a very good effect on you"

"Then you'd lose a hell of a lot of money" Aaron shot back.

"Oh really?"

"Yes really, I need you to leave right now!"

Flynn frowned cleverly. "Why? Jason isn't here is he? And don't lie I know he isn't, I saw you checking in - alone!"

Aaron sighed and looked away. "When all someone wants is a quiet Friday night in" he chided with a shake of his head.

"Well you're not getting one, you can hit me, kick and scream all you like but I'm not going anywhere until we've talked and I mean properly"

"You can go and swivel on my middle finger mate, I'm not talking to you, who the hell do you think you are?"

"I'm someone who cares a hell of a lot about you to come all the way to Manchester to try and make you see some sense"

"I see all the sense there is, Jason is brilliant, he's perfect…a dream man, if ever I had one…I love him and I'm with him"

"But while it's all perfect there's something else isn't there?"

"No, he doesn't agree on some things but that's natural" Aaron replied but then he flipped majorly. "WHY ARE YOU HERE?! This doesn't make sense!" he raged. "If you've come to…to…well you can forget it cause we are never ever getting back together Flynn, not that we were really" he said with a frown.

Flynn couldn't help but smirk. "Like ever?" he asked in a lame pathetic excuse of an American accent, reminiscent of Taylor swift's song that was storming the charts.

Aaron shot a look at him with a deep scowl but even Flynn could see he still had a sense of humour in there somewhere as he could see a smile starting at the corner of his lips. But he chuckled but stopped abruptly as he turned away. "Like ever" he replied in a normal tone to answer Flynn's question. Then all of a sudden behind him Flynn began to laugh which made Aaron angrier and he turned to him again. "What the hell is so funny? Do you have any idea what Jason will do if he even knew you were in this room with me?"

"Oh I'm sorry" he laughed. "But your face was a picture" he told him, still bowled over in laughter.

"Yeah" he grunted. "I bet it was, look Flynn just get the hell away from me eh?"

Flynn slowly recovered and straightened up. "Nope…can't… I'm staying here"

"Then I'll call reception, have you removed"

"I'd rather you man handled me if I was honest"

To that Aaron just glared at him then shook his head in disbelief and slumped down onto the bed with his back facing Flynn.

Flynn sighed quietly and after a minute of silence he walked over and sat beside him. "Aaron, somehow he has caused a massive rift between you and your family, and Adam…he might not have said it but I can tell he's devastated by it all and deep down he is just scared for you, really scared and so am I, they all are"

"I've already had a one sided conversation with Jason where I blatantly outright told him that if he ever hit me again then I'd hit back, he understood and he was genuinely sorry Flynn and I believe him, I do…"

"That's good but I'm not worried the physical abuse"

Aaron scoffed and turned disgustedly at Flynn. "What you saying? That he's messing with my mind?" Flynn nodded. "Well that's a load of shit Flynn! He isn't I think I'd know if he was"

Flynn sadly shook his head. "You wouldn't…you don't…it's happening now and you can't see it…somewhere in his head he's screwed up, god knows why. I don't know the bloke and I don't care to but he wants you all to himself, that isn't a bit worrying for you?"

Aaron pouted and shook his head. "No because that's exactly how I feel about him, I want him to myself all the time, it's a new love it's fresh" Aaron spoke quietly and Flynn picked up on his sadness. "It's the way it's meant to be…why can't you and everybody else just let me be happy, I deserve that don't I? I have to after everything right?" he asked and finally turned to look Flynn in the eyes.

Flynn nodded. "Of course you do Aaron, of course but Jason-" he stopped and sighed. "Something's not right"

"No Flynn, everything is right with him…it is, everyone just thinks I'm going too fast and have started making a mountain out of a mole hill and reading into things that they think they're seeing, he's a good man"

Flynn lowered his head.

"I think the only reason you're here is because of the way we left things, Jason got to me before you realised who you wanted, and it's upset you, I know how it feels Flynn, I was on the other end of it when I came back from my holiday with Hazel"

Flynn nodded, still with his head down and unknowingly to Aaron he was fighting back the enormous urge to burst into tears. "Then you'll know how bad I'm hurting"

Aaron bit his lip and nodded. "Yeah, yeah I do but I gave you plenty of chances to forgive me…I even went to the extremes of ruining your meal out for god sake but even that didn't get through to you, I wanted you Flynn but you just wouldn't listen and I'm sorry but I couldn't have made it more obvious if I wanted to"

"I was being stubborn" Flynn replied very quietly.

"I know but I found Jason, at the time I was angry and thinking why the hell should I waste my time, you were, no you are perfect Flynn in my eyes you are, Jason is too but…it's too late, I'm with him now so I'm going to nicely ask that you go home and please tell everyone there's nothing to worry about because I'm fine and I really will be"

"You do it"

Aaron shook his head. "No, I'm not seeing them again"

"How are you going to manage that? You work in the same village" Flynn asked as he looked up at Aaron again.

"Blank them, switch off…quite skilled at it to be honest"

"I can't leave without knowing you'll be alright"

"I told you, I will be" Aaron smiled a little. "Flynn, I'm sorry alright, I'm sorry for everything I've ever done to hurt you but you have to move on, find yourself someone and be happy"

"I've found him Aaron and he's staring right back at me"

Aaron sighed and rubbed his eyes. "But you and I can't happen"

"Jesus Aaron" Flynn said quickly and in a rather frustrated tone. "Can't you see it? Can't you see how madly I'm in love with you for god sake!" he rose to his feet angrily leaving Aaron sat stunned. "You're sat there and it's all about you isn't it? Well from where I was sitting you were rather inconsiderate especially considering what we went through together, I love you alright, I do and I can't help it and Jason is not the person you need in your life he's going to chew you up and spit you back out, then there'll be nothing!" Flynn said quickly and began to sob. "Then the Aaron I know and love will be gone!"

Without a word Aaron got up and moved toward him and began to push him to the door much to the pleas from Flynn to stop but Aaron shook his head, he was angry but a different anger, a calm anger that wasn't visible to anyone else. He pulled down the handle and yanked the door open and flung Flynn out and slammed the door in his face.

Aaron turned away from the door and paced frantically, his fingers trailing down from the edge of his mouth to his chin. He sighed and stormed back to the door and angrily pulled it back open, wide with his arm outstretched keeping it open. Flynn hadn't moved. Aaron's chest rose and fell rapidly and they simply stared at each other for a few seconds before Flynn made his move and quickly he rushed to him and placed his hands on either side of Aaron's face and kissed him passionately which wasn't rejected as the force from Flynn pushed them back into the room.

…

The next morning Aaron woke up to see Flynn sitting up in bed looking at him, he was unnerved by it and his frown told Flynn exactly that. He rubbed his eyes as he sat up. "That didn't mean anything; last night…" he shook his head "It didn't…"

"Well I'll admit it's not exactly how I expected our first time to be like but I can't say it wasn't perfect because it was…"

"Just shut up Flynn" Aaron said in a sigh and he forced his fists slowly into his eyes. "This is just a bad dream, it's got to be"

"It's very much real" Flynn told him.

Aaron scowled at him and awkwardly moved to get out of bed grabbing the thin sheet under the duvet and pulling it around him as he got up. "Bet your loving this aren't ya?"

"No, not really…" Flynn said and pouted as he shook his head. "Just stop flapping like an old woman and relax I'm not going to tell him"

"No, I know you're bloody not cause if he does…" Aaron swallowed hard but his words and Aaron's reluctance to finish what he was saying caused Flynn's ears to prick up.

"Cause if he does what?" Flynn got up out of bed and reached for his boxers that lay on the floor and slipped them on.

"Nothing, I just don't want him to flip out again"

"Cause he'll hit you again?"

"Well no, I hope not, I'd try not to let him"

Flynn sighed. "This is ridiculous, I love you Aaron, and you obviously feel something because you wouldn't have kept sniping at me, you're hurt still too by what I did with Chris…and I'm sorry I am…"

Aaron nodded.

"Just walk away Aaron, walk away from him now, before it's too late"

Aaron's eyes darted to Flynn to around the room and back again. "No, I don't want to"

"Figured you'd say that" Flynn started as he angrily picked up his clothes off the floor and headed to the bathroom but stopped next to Aaron on the way. "So it meant nothing then? Hmm? I don't think so somehow" he told him then stormed into the bathroom to get dressed.

Aaron slumped down onto the bed and picked up his phone off the bedside table and saw that he had three texts off Jason; he ignored them and proceeded to his contact list and he tapped Adams name and it started dialling.

He needed his mate, someone to talk to, he was confused, and utterly fed up with everything and he was always one he could turn to when he'd done something stupid but then in a split second, he remembered and he quickly ended the call before it could be answered.

Aaron had no one except Jason well Flynn also but Aaron didn't want him; in another life maybe then yeah but like he'd reminded many people he was with Jason and he did love him, that last night was a blip he'd rather forget. Momentarily Aaron jumped when his phone rang and he answered it and instantly heard Jason's voice. "Hi" he tried to sound happy. "You okay?

"Yeah, how was your night?"

"Oh erm, yeah not bad, bit boring though" Aaron explained. "Yours?"

"I missed you" Jason told him which brought a real, full smile to Aaron's face but then he swallowed back the bitter taste of guilt.

"I missed you too"

"Hey which hotel are you in again?"

"Uh why?" Aaron asked with a frown.

"Just answer me ya div" Jason chuckled.

"Travel-lodge, city centre why?"

"Excellent" Jason grinned. "Come outside" he told him

Aaron's eyes widened. "Y-You're here?"

"Don't sound to happy about it will ya?"

"No of course I am, I just thought I told you I had to do this alone"

"And you will be if you have too, I won't be near the auction, come down babe"

"Uh yeah, give me five minutes I've just woke up"

"Okay see you in a bit, love you"

"I love you too" he told him and hung up quickly, then his eyes widened and he jumped up in a panic. "Flynn! You have to get out of here now! Jason's outside!"

"You what?" he asked as he emerged from the bathroom fully clothed.

"He's here, I don't know why but he is, go!"

Flynn nodded quickly and grabbed his jacket and left the room as fast as he could, god knows where he was going to go though, he couldn't leave the hotel if he was outside.

When Flynn had gone Aaron quickly freshened up, dressed, tidied the room and made the bed then triple checked for any signs of what had gone on the previous night that Jason might pick out if there was any but thankfully there wasn't. Shaking, Aaron blew out a breath as he rushed out of his room and made his way to meet with Jason.

TBC…