One-Shots // Book Compilation

• Ronan x Adam •

TITLE: Rogue Nightmare
WORDS: 11,638
COMPLETED: 6/19/21
UNIVERSE: The Raven Cycle // Maggie Stiefvater

  If there was one thing Ronan Lynch was good at, it had to be pissing people off. Sure, him and his brother had a feud that would last their entire lives, but Ronan was genuinely capable of picking fights with anyone. Currently, Adam Parrish was the individual who was far beyond furious. Was it because of Ronan? Well, when wasn't it?

"I'm going to strangle him," Adam grumbled, though it was an empty threat. And both him and the person he was speaking to knew that.

"You have no idea where he is? You're certain he didn't leave a note or tell you he was going anywhere a few days back?" The other boy, Richard Campbell Gansey III, asked. Leave it to Gansey to attempt to be the calm in the storm during a crisis. Though, if Adam was being honest, Gansey's façade was crumbling. The other boy was secretly far beyond worried.

"He didn't say anything. And he definitely didn't leave a note," Adam muttered, beginning to pace around the cracked pavement that made up the parking lot at Monmouth Manufacturing.

  Blue sat on the obnoxious orange hood of the Pig, legs crossed and head tilted to the side as she listened to Adam's current predicament. Meanwhile, Gansey stood at her side, leaning back against the Pig's hood. The couple were watching Adam with immense worry, seeing as he couldn't prevent himself from pacing. Adam was angered, but that was a direct result of his worry and fear; that was just the way Adam Parrish's emotions worked. However, Gansey and Blue were both also thinking about Ronan's whereabouts, finding themselves feeding off of Adam's anxieties.

"Maybe he'll call you?" Blue suggested, but that remark almost made Adam laugh. Because Ronan Lynch using a cell phone was practically unheard of.

"He won't..." Gansey muttered, not wanting to be the pessimist, but still wanting to remain realistic. Even Blue had to know that there was no feasible way that Ronan would use his phone. Ronan could be dying while holding a cell phone, and would prefer to bleed out opposed to calling for help.

  Blue shot Gansey an upset look, but he only exhaled a sigh in response. They both wanted to comfort Adam, yet were uncertain how to do so. Because neither of them had the ability to make Ronan Lynch appear out of thin air. Blue anxiously messed with a bracelet that she had made out of a variety of colorful seed beads, which had a small silver charm on the end; the charm was a gift from Gansey and was shaped like a lily. Gansey had a matching bracelet, yet his charm was a golden crown. And both of them refused to take them off.

"I'm going to kill him..." Adam muttered, beginning to run his hands through his messy hair. Currently, it was eleven in the evening, and Ronan had been missing the entire day and majority of the previous night.

"Look, I'm sure he's going to show back up. That's kind of what Ronan does: takes off without warning and returns whenever he feels like it," Gansey explained, removing his wire-frame glasses from his face to rub the bridge of his nose, then he put the glasses back on.

"Did you two have a fight or something?" Blue hesitated to ask, but felt like she had to. Blue grabbed onto one of Gansey's hands, where he immediately began fidgeting with her skinny and delicate fingers. He would mess with some of the rings she was wearing, but Blue didn't mind. She knew that it made him feel a bit better.

"Nothing too severe. We've had worse fights," Adam muttered, sitting down on the curb, placing his head in his hands. He felt like crying, yet he knew that he wouldn't. He couldn't have a breakdown in front of Gansey and Blue. He wouldn't let himself.

"Do you think it had something to do with Declan?" Gansey questioned next, watching Adam in a concerned manner, yet knowing that they still needed to work towards locating Ronan.