When a sadist punk meets a masochist introvert who's feelings and actions are easily persuaded by love. ~ trigger warnings: sexual situations, abuse, self-harm and more. ~ short chapters, sorry! ~ cover credit to vampirexchild

It's been two years since Frank left Gerard, and they haven't spoken since. Frank still isn't over the boy who broke his heart, but he still manages to live and attempt to move on. That is until the two unknowingly apply for the same job and are hired.

geebear: ummm who is this? frnk is typing...

Frnk: Is This Gerard Way? What Gerard Way gets for writing his kik name on the boys bathroom wall when he's at a low point.

It's the lake in November, and the move closer to the ocean, and Gerard's fixation, and Gerard's compulsions like tidal waves dragging him down, and Mikey's more distant than ever: like they're drifting out into the middle of the ocean, whereas Gerard's just stuck there: water turning to quicksand around him, drowning. And it's the letter; Frank finds it on the floor of the boys' bathroom on the first floor. It's dropped in accident, perhaps from a pocket or something, and it's drenched in what Frank hopes is tap water, and the words: scrawled in blue ink are difficult to make out as the words join together in a fuzzy inky mess. The only paragraph legible is the final one, and even still, it barely is: 'I've been underwater for a long time now, but I'm not drowning, I'm beginning to think I can breathe like this, but I can't, I'm gasping for breath, and I have to do this, Mikey, I have to end this myself. I'm going to the lake on the 1st of November, don't wait for me... I'm not coming back.' And the name signed at the bottom is little more than a smudged mess of blue ink, and there's nothing Frank can do about it, but he knows for certain that the one thing he can't do is ignore this letter, and he reminds himself of that as he folds it into his pocket. It's a suicide note, Frank's stupid, but not stupid enough to brush over that fact, and whoever this person is, Frank knows that they most certainly don't deserve to die. And Frank isn't going to let them. Because he's going to find this person; he's got time now at least, and he can save them, he will save them - Frank promises himself that. But one person in a whole school, it's like a needle in a haystack, but he's got time, it's November 1st in thirty days, and he can only hope that it will be enough. He's got one month: the date is October 1st.

Frank Iero makes a comment that he probably shouldn't have and gets stuck in detention with his fiery psychology teacher, Mr. Way.

[frerard highschool au/sequel to headfirst for halos] Anger manifests itself in Gerard Way, burning away at the softness that once lay there. Everything that has happened has been too much, but he'll never admit that. He can't help but take it out on everyone that walks past him, from his brother's ex-boyfriend, Pete Wentz, to a kid he picked up on that night. Frank Iero. But something else is manifesting in Gerard, something that feels stronger than the anger and the sadness and the hurt. Love. Or at least something close to it. The need to protect this kid in the same way he desperately tried to protect his brother. There's a connection between all of these people. Between the sadness and the anger and the hollowness. They just want Mikey Way back. [trigger warning for: self-harm, suicide, dark thoughts, underage. literally i cannot stress this enough there are multiple, graphic descriptions of self-harm and suicide attempts please read with extreme caution if you are sensitive to that kind of thing]

Frank Iero liked to prove people wrong, he proved his family wrong by going to college, he proved his professors wrong by finishing it- but he has never been able to prove himself wrong. So when he is offered a job to get him off the streets and out of the gutter he says 'Why not?' but will his closed off attitude clash with his boss? Gerard Way is an artist, the type of artist that is introvert and a coffee addict, an artist that lives and breathes his passion. But now he is lost in a world of black, he hates being poked and pushed by doctors and he had given up all hope of ever getting out of the consuming void he finds himself in. But with a new person in his life will he begin to see things a little more brighter, or will he be left broken hearted?

Frank is just an ordinary person, with an ordinary job, when one day everything changes. A flaming metal object falls from the sky, crashes right in his backyard, and what was inside it would change his life forever. Chapters: 33/33. Complete. FAQ at the end covers all 3 installations of the fic. Prologue and Epilogue can be found on my page.

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