You’ve been spending a lot of time in the gardens, haven’t you sir?
I suppose I have.
(Atonement au x)
Wesley/Paul | Revolver - Madonna
You’ve been hit by a smooth criminal
A bad boy
I’ve got you cryin’ to your momma
Sayin’
I can’t believe it
I’ve seen your type
Bring a knife into a gun fight
Caught up in love, right
I think I’m in love, I
He was slowly losing the will to resist, and damn Michael for making it that much harder - James wasn’t entirely sure how much more of this he could put himself through before he goes and makes the biggest mistake of his short life.
‘You know it’s ridiculous how we’re practically shouting at each other from across the room, right?’ Michael said with just the slightest quirk of his lips.
‘Unlike you, my hearing is just fine,’ he retorted easily as he continued to pick at his cuticles out of a nervous habit he hasn’t yet managed to drop from his childhood. James wondered when their other flatmate was going to come home so Michael would at least have somebody else to bug, tease and bother.
Michael raised an eyebrow in amusement as he nodded his head at the free space next to him and said, ‘come here.’
James swallowed the lump in his throat and steeled his shaky resolve as he slowly stood.
There’s so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger. There’s good in you too, and you can harness all that. You have a power that no one can match, not even me.
