ZIAM ONE-SHOTS (BOTTOM LIAM)

The Sweet Surrender of Silence (forces me to live alone) 3

Please note that the beginning of this chapter talks about a car accident resulting in two deaths. Also, there is a bit of dubious consent going on throughout the smut scene so please consider this a trigger warning for both of those themes.

The call had come in around 1:30 am.

Liam felt the bed shift as Connor swatted blindly at the bedside table where his cell phone started to go off for the fourth time in a row.

"Hello?" Connor answered gruffly and sat up in their bed.

Liam snuggled his way closer to The Dom and settled his head on his lap, humming appreciatively when Connor's fingers lightly brushed through his curls. He was on the verge of falling back asleep when Connor abruptly shot out of bed, leaving Liam's head to fall gracelessly onto the mattress.

"Are you sure? Okay, I'll be there in ten minutes." Connor's voice had gone from exhausted to frantic in a matter of seconds and Liam was suddenly wide awake.

"What's going on?" Liam asked as he sat up and watched Connor start stuffing his legs into a pair of loose joggers.

"My parents were in a car accident. We've got to go, Liam, come on get up!" Connor shouted, eyes wide with worry as he helped Liam pull a shirt over his head.

Liam sat frozen in their bed and watched Connor rush around looking for his car keys.

"Liam, what are you doing?! We have to go!" Connor yelled when he realized the sub hadn't moved a muscle.

The Dom's angry tone had Liam fighting the urge to get to his knees and bow his head. In any other case that would have been a perfectly reasonable response, but Liam was sure that was the last thing his Dom wanted right now.

So he immediately went to work pulling on a pair of shorts and shoving his feet into his sneakers.

Connor gripped Liam's hand as they left their house and didn't release it until the two had bolted through the doors of the A&E.

"Excuse me— um, my parents," Connor fumbled once they had approached the front desk.

"The last name," The nurse said while her hands hovered over her keyboard.

Liam watched as Connor opened his mouth to answer the woman only for nothing to come out.

"Hughes. Marcus and Laura Hughes," Liam supplied and wrapped a comforting arm around Connor's waist.

The nurse nodded and entered the information into the database. "It looks like they are both still in surgery. If you would please take a seat in the waiting area a Doctor will be out to update you as soon as they have more information."

Connor nodded his head numbly at the neutral and dragged his feet towards the seating area. Liam followed closely behind his Dom and plopped down into the chair beside him. Neither of them spoke, both too lost in their own heads.

It all felt so surreal. The couple had only just gotten off the phone with Laura that evening when she had called to excitedly inform them she and Marcus would be back from their holiday in time to make Liam's graduation the next day.

Everything had been perfect in Liam's life since he and Connor had gotten together. Liam's parents took to Connor almost as quickly as Marcus and Laura had taken to Liam. The two even helped Liam's parents come around to him being a sub and choosing to go off his suppressants early. Connor's parents had been a dream was the thing and now Liam feared he was about to be rudely awoken.