𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚎 𝙶𝚞𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊

He smiled at him, the look sad, and nodded. "I understand. It's better this way." And he turned his back then, so that the other couldn't see the tears burning in his crimson-hazel eyes.

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Gerard has been around for way longer than he should, struggling to survive with the memories locked in his head. He builds a shaky wall between those memories for painful war and loss of love, and his current self. He makes an almost peaceful existence in a small town, eating and breathing, hiding in the graveyard, the one place he really finds peace, as cliché as it sounds.

Everything he's worked so hard for comes crumbling down around him when a curious boy with the same name as his lost lover breaches his safe place, coming in and questioning him, pushing his delicate wall over and making it crash to the ground, quite literally, and releasing the floodgates of painful memories. His secret teeters on the edge of being revealed far too soon, and suddenly the curious man is far too deep in Gerard's secret life.

What happens behind closed doors should never be revealed to the outside world, and when it is, Gerard and his little pet will have hell to pay.

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Word Count:

Started: 07/10/2020 (month, day, year)

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Chapters:

Triggers: PTSD, mentions of War, mentions of death, mentions of self-harm, drinking, smoking, drug use, sex, rape, homophobic slurs, mature language, (more to come)