#hehe this is from my royjamie bedsharing fic

[devotioncrater]

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🦅 - angsty quote

🐓 - summary/ao3 tags

AO3 TAGS: Bed-sharing, Hurt/Comfort, Insomnia, Friends to Lovers, Roy Kent Needs Therapy, Cooking Together, Canon Divergence

ANGSTY QUOTE:

“Jamie,” he whispers, “are you asleep?”

“No,” Jamie responds.

“Do you ever feel like there’s something fucked inside you?”

“No, ‘cause I’m me.”

And, yeah, Roy should have expected that answer.

The mattress beside him shifts, and he turns his head to see Jamie’s now on his side facing him. His mouth twists in that funny way when he’s concerned. “D’you think there’s something fucked inside you, mate?”

Roy looks up at the ceiling. “No,” he reflexively says. But then feels awful, trapped, and so he allows himself a correction. “Maybe.”

“Hmm.”

Something cold covers his clenched hands. Roy recognizes it to be Jamie’s hand. And he allows for Jamie to gently spread his fingers open, allows for Jamie to flip them so his palm is up, allows for Jamie to hold his hand.

It’s called empathy, you dusty old fart, Jamie once told him months ago, ages ago.

Roy does not cry. He doesn’t. But he blinks too fast and he feels his throat close up and yeah, okay, he really needs to be fucking open to empathy right now. So he turns into Jamie’s chest, ignores the guilt he feels because of it, and lets Jamie cradle him.