your heart is a hurricane
Sting's entire life changed when he was eleven years old and his best friend Rogue told a secret that he'd promised to keep. Taken away from the father who abused him and the best friend who'd tried to save him, Sting tried to start a new life with his uncle. But the trauma wasn't easy to escape, and eventually Sting turned to drinking to forget the things that hurt.
Now he's an adult, and he hasn't been sober in years. But when drinking nearly kills him and a near-stranger saves his life, Sting has a chance to turn his life around, and maybe become the man that Rogue deserves to love.
Note: This is a companion piece to "how to become a wildfire" and it also deals with the topic of abuse. However, this work is focused more on the aftermath of being abused as a child, and features a lot of bad coping skills, including alcoholism.
Written for Nonbinary Month 2019
CW for child abuse, PTSD, alcoholism, self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Trigger warnings will be posted on individual chapters if necessary.
Cross-posted on AO3 and fanfiction.net as splendidlyimperfect
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