jude/gabe

The apartment was normal. That was the point. Jude wasn't even in it--he hadn't been inside--but staring up at the building made a swirl of emotions fill him that he wasn't at all used to. Home. This was going to be home. Home in a way that no place had been since his childhood home--the place...

To give a long thread a short summary: Gabe was very mad. He yelled at Angelo before realizing he'd been crying, and the two had a heart to heart. Gabe told Angelo about his own past with his loans, and Angelo told him more or less everything. About his dad, about his secrets. About how he'd...

Xavier was awake, although groggily. His eyes remained closed and he could feel that he was laying on his back. What time was it? He couldn't care, he felt tired and wanted to sleep. So, he did something out of pure instinct. He rolled onto his stomach and attempted to pull a blanket more over...

Jude sat in the hospital waiting room and wondered why, exactly, all of it was happening. What chain of events had lead to this? Had it started with Xavier's stupid prank? Or was it even earlier then that? The details were scant. Xavier and Dani had been at the beach. Dani had started to drown...

It was hard not to notice that Gabe was nervous about physical affection. He seemed to like it when he got it, but he also went bright red if Jude so much as held his hand. It was sitting there, on a bench, holding Gabe's hand lightly in the only hand he actually had. "Would you believe I...

The sandwich place wasn't located all that far from the community center, which was, realistically speaking, probably the reason it was still going. Even so, it wasn't like it was particularly obvious. The store was tucked down what looked a whole lot like an alley, only slightly wider, and the...