Stand By You (Troyler AU)

Family

-Time ship later that day-

Tyler sat in the living room as Jackie walked back into the room holding Tyler's nephew Maddox. Tyler smiled when Jackie set the small boy down and Maddox waddled over to Tyler with a wooden block in his hand. Tyler lifted Maddox onto his lap and bounced his knee lighting as Maddox started to giggle. Tyler stopped bouncing when Maddox clasped onto the necklace around Tyler's neck. "Hey you be gentle" Tyler cooed removing Maddox's hand from around the chain. Tyler sat on the couch playing with this nephew before his mother finally raised her eyebrow in Tyler's direction

"Did he give it to you" She asked quietly as she dusted off the shelf

Tyler scoffed and rolled his eyes "By it do you mean herpes" he said continuing to bounce his knee under Maddox. Jackie let out a loud laugh in response looking at Tyler and shaking her head

"What am I going to do with you" She said with a smile picking up Maddox and walking in the direction of the kitchen. Tyler smiled and leaned back into the couch as Codi bounded down the stairs. She immediately began shifting the pillows around on the couch as she let out a loud huff.

"Can you move your fat head out of the way I'm looking for something" She said in an annoyed tone placing her hands on her hips and tapping her foot when Tyler didn't move right away. Tyler cringed, the words stung even thought she didn't mean the words in that way. 'fat' he thought, he could feel his heart beating quickly and he finally moved off the couch and he walked in the dinning room where his mom was laying cookies out on the table for their tradition of cookie decorating.

He let out a slow breath as he walked out of the door way to go up to his room. "Ty-luer" Maddox called from his highchair. Tyler smiled, his younger family members always made him feel better even if they were just a distraction for the time being

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-time skip Thursday afternoon-

Tilly: I'm here

Troye let out a breath and grabbed his backpack before making his way out of his apartment. He turned and locked the door before descending the stairs and existing the warmth of the building to enter the frigid Michigan air. He spotted Tyler's old jeep right away and his racing heart slowed down a bit. Even though Troye was nervous to go meet Tyler's family just seeing Tyler calmed him slightly. He walked carefully over to the car, making sure not to slip on the ice as he opened the door and placed his backpack at his feet.

"Hello Troye" Tyler said with a wide grin. Troye looked down to attempt to hide the redness that rose onto his cheeks. He wanted to know why Tyler was smiling like that. He loved when Tyler smiled but why was he smiling so widely as he looked at Troye. "Hiya Tilly" Troye said

The boys sat quietly as more christmas music spilled from the radio. Tyler sang along with the words quietly as Troye watched the moving figures out the window of the car. Tyler stopped singing along with the music when he heard Troye singing softly along with the lyrics. Tyler was entranced by the sound of Troye's voice, it was soft and you would have missed it if you weren't paying attention but Tyler heard it, and it was beautiful. Tyler listened quietly for a bit

"So I just wanted to warn you before we got to my house, I kinda have a big family" Tyler said keeping his eyes on the road. Tyler knew that Troye had experienced panic attacks when lots of people were around in the past. He and Troye had talked about it earlier in one of their many bathroom conversations.

"Oh thats okay I had 3 siblings at home" Troye said with a sincere smile. Tyler giggled, he was glad that Troye didn't immediately panic but boy was he in for a shock

"Yeah about that I have way more than 3" Tyler said still looking ahead at the road

"How many" Troye asked also still looking out the window

"Including halves, and steps, and in laws, I have 12 soon to be 13" He said finally glancing over to see Troye's reaction

Troye swallowed the lump in his throat. Twelve siblings is a lot of siblings he though as he still looked out the window. Troye closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he didn't want to panic. Everything was going to be fine. Tyler was going to be there and everything was going to fine. Everything was going to be fine. "Oh okay" Troye said

"But I am going to be there the whole time and they are all really nice, well most of them Codi can being annoying but I sure she will be really nic-"

"Everything is going to be fine Tilly. don't worry about me, I'll be fine if I can breathe" Troye said giving Tyler a reassuring smile. Tyler smiled back and let out a slow breath as he continued down the road to pull into his drive way.

Troye watched as Tyler hopped out of the car. Troye closed his eyes and took one more deep breath before climbing out of the jeep and following Tyler up the path to the front door. Troye observed the facade of the house, it was modern and made from bricks it looked like it had three floors (which was needed with 12 kids). The house was adorned with black shudders along the windows. Troye looked at the wooden double doors and the small toys that were laying here and there around Tyler's lawn. Troye took one more glance around before following Tyler inside.

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A/N:

HI HAPPY SUNDAY!!!!

I am going to see you again later so bye for now

*melts snow with hair dryer* 

Katie :)