AEW / WWE IMAGINES: Wrestling With Your Dreams ✨ (request closed)

darby // i need you

"Alright team, it's time. We're heading back out on the road. Here is the tour schedule, we'll have creative meetings with different groups throughout the week. If anyone needs anything, just let me know. Have a great day, guys." TK smiled before ending the meeting.
"Darby!! We're going back on the road, with FANS." I shook him back and forth playfully.
"Back on the road, woooo," he said. The dread in his voice was prominent.
"Not excited?" I poured at him.
"I am excited, just feeling tired."
"Well, you better perk up, sunshine. It's time for us to get back to normal." I leaned in a little closer than I probably should have and the air tightened around us. After an awkward three heartbeats, I pulled away. "I'll see you later, Darbs. Tell me if you wanna ride to the airport together." I smiled and waved before I headed off to the locker room.

Things had been weird between us for the past six months or so, and I guess you could say it's my fault. I'm the one that kissed him, I'm the one who shoved him into my room, and I'm the one who made him want to stay all night. I shook my head, laughing at the fact that was real, it happened. That one night of hooking up with Darby changed everything. The only people that knew were Anna and Alan, and that's just because I had to tell someone. We tried to act like everything was still normal, everything was fine between us but there were moments like earlier that made me miss the way we could be before. Before all of this happened, Darby would have hugged me, kissed my forehead and said there's no one else he'd rather travel with. Maybe it was my dumbass "back to normal" comment that threw him off.
"Earth to y/n?" Anna waved her hand in front of my face. "Hello?" She giggled. "Whatcha thinking about?"
"Nothing, I was just getting ready for my match."
"You're a liar, you know that?"
"I do, but I don't think I like being called out on it." I smiled up at her. Anna had become one of my best friends since I got to AEW. It felt like a fever dream that we were both here.
"What Darby thought is occupying your mind today?" And as I got dressed I told her about the awkward encountered with today's meeting. "That is beyond tough, the back to normal comment was something." She laughed as threw me my kickpads.
"You're an awful friend, you know that?" She shrugged.
"The way I see it, you need to either hookup again and find a way to make it official or you need to move on accept being awkward friends."
"You wouldn't even talk to Jack for three months, do you remember that?"
"I do, but look at us now." She unlocked her phone to show a cute selfie of them out on a date, they really were perfect together.
"Okay, so what do I do love master?"
"That my friend, is up to you. You're the only person who knows what you want, and you're the person that knows him better than anyone." I sighed, she was right.

Ethan slammed anything he could get into the side of Darby's head, trash cans, bottles, chairs, anything that wasn't bolted to the floor. We went stumbling against the railing, but Ethan caught him in time and instead sent him flying down the cement stairs. Staying right there was the hardest choice of my life. Knowing I couldn't walk through that curtain lit a fire in me I had never felt before. I just needed to know he was safe, I needed to know he wasn't hurt. Mox put his hand on top of my head, making me jump. "He's a tough dude, he'll be okay. Why don't you go sit outside of Doc's office and wait for him? He'll be there in a few minutes." I looked at him in a confused way. Mox and Darby were buds, they had done some stuff together and gotten along really well, but there's no way he knew...right?
"Thanks, Mox." I smiled anyway and made my way down the open hallways that had become our home. It felt like forever until he made it back with Doc, he was holding his shoulder...the same one Cage had dislocated. "Hey, you okay?"
"Never better." He forced a small smile.
"Can I come in?" He didn't respond at first. He looked at Doc, looked at the ceiling and then back to me before nodding. I sat in a chair right next to the table, on his good side. When Doc went to pop his shoulder back in, he grabbed my hand and a little spark ran through my body. Doc finished looking at him and taping him up as much as possible.
"Alright, so you've got a mild concussion, the shoulder is going to sore for a few weeks and your face is going to bruise pretty bad." Doc was used to these things, so he said it like nothing.
"Nothing Ethan hasn't done before. Thanks Doc." Darby shook his hand and he was gone, leaving just me and Darby in the room.
"That was really scary to watch." I whispered.
"You took thumbtacks two weeks ago?" Darby chuckled.
"It wasn't scary because of that...." My voice was still small and I wasn't sure I could raise it. "Why'd you let him do that?"
"I don't let him do anything, you know that." Then the awkward silence fell upon us again. "Look I'm-," he stopped and took three deep breaths. "I'm sorry for how I've handled all of this. After that night, I should have done more. I shouldn't have pushed you away. It was wrong to act like it didn't happen and now, everything is changing again and I don't think we can keep ignoring this. I need you, (y/n)....I need you in more ways than I have ever needed another person." I looked up at him like a deer in headlights. I had waited so long to hear him say anything like that, that hearing it didn't sound real. I stood up, positioning myself in between his legs as he still sat on the table. "My beautiful angel..." his lips curled at the corners as his thumb ran over my face. "I'm sorry I made you wait so long, I'm sorry I couldn't-" I kissed him. Soft and passionate, but desperate enough to feel the last six months between us. He wrapped one arm around my waist and pulled me into the kiss.
"No more I'm sorry, you're here and that's what matters." I smiled with his lips still pressed to mind.

"Darby's got a girlfriend, Darby's got a girlfriend, Darby's got a girlfriend." The vlog crew sang from behind us.
"BTE has more subs, BTE has more subs, BTE has more subs." I sang back to them as I laced my fingers through Darby's. Things had been so nice the last few weeks, backstage kisses and hanging out with Darby. I only wondered what the road could bring.