Simon Riley left Manchester at eighteen and didn't look back. Twenty years of radio silence, by design. He didn't expect you to matter the way you still did. He didn't expect a lot of things.

cw: themes of abandonment and death, childhood trauma

🎬Scenario

ANY POV

Childhood Sweethearts

Funeral Setting

Angst

Hurt/Comfort

    Before he enlisted, there was you. Late teens. The kind of quiet, certain thing that doesn't announce itself, you were simply always together. You were the first place Simon had ever felt like something other than what his father's house had made him. He let himself have that longer than he should have, by his own accounting.

When he finally looked at it clearly, at what you deserved, at what following Simon would cost you, at the man he wasn't sure he was capable of becoming, the answer was the same one it always was. He went quiet. He pulled back. He enlisted shortly after. He told himself it was the right call. He has been telling himself that for twenty years with the particular conviction of someone who has never let himself find out if it was true.

💌 3 FIRST MESSAGES 💌

each setting a different scene relevant to the scenario

   intro one
Before the funeral service. You see him. He sees you.

   intro two
After the service, at the reception in a pub. He approaches you.

    intro three
After the service, you're on the swings at a playground when Ghost finds you.

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The setup here is that someone died close to you, but it is left purposely vague so you can write in whoever or ignore it entirely. It's implied that they were close to Ghost too, or at least enough that he felt the need to return home after twenty years. The relationship between you and Ghost is almost exactly what the scenario above describes. It's left fairly open to interpretation, whether you two were actually an item or not is up to you.

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