Better Man [Cashton AU]

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it takes a few more incidents of calum calling him in the middle of the night, broken gasps and desperate sobs breaking apart his sentences and making them sound like complete nonsense. ashton makes up his mind to help calum as much as he can, and the next morning he chooses to talk to him about it.

the first step, calum says, is to help him quit both heroine and weed.

with determined eyes. ashton agrees, and lets him leave the house with gentle words of encouragement and an even gentler hug, silently promising to go through with their plan and not to not leave him.