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He’s going to die, he thinks. He can’t believe that this is how he goes — drowning at the Bandee Community Pool on a busy January day. He can almost hear Hunter and Macca's laughs, and the humiliation seems to sink him further beneath the water.
Suddenly, he feels an arm wrap around his torso, yanking him upwards with ease.
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Naim can’t swim. Ryan, a lifeguard at the Bandee Public Pool, makes it his mission to fix that. Naim cannot for the life of him understand why.
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24 Aug 2026
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trouble's always gonna find you, baby (but so will i) by messifan2006
Fandoms: Leviticus (Movie 2026)
19 Jun 2026
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“So, what now? We keep catching coaches from shithole to shithole?”
A mosquito pricks Ryan’s neck and he smacks it away. He thinks about the weight of Naim’s head on his shoulder on the bus, the tinny melodies emitted by cheap earphones filling the space between them. Remembers how settled he’d felt, how uncertain yet still oddly calm, having only the vaguest idea where he was going but being sure about who he was going with. He looks at Naim. “Maybe, yeah.”
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Ryan and Naim keep going.
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11 Aug 2026
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“Nah, fuck Paris,” he says, nipping at the underside of Naim’s chin to make him laugh again, the kind of startled laugh that doesn’t know how to be self-conscious. Oh, Ryan thinks, he loves him.
He can’t say it out loud, not yet, notyetnotyetnotyet, so he chooses to be honest about the rest of it instead, says, “We’ll figure out Melbourne first. Yeah? Then—I dunno. We’ll go wherever you wanna go.”
“I wanna go where you wanna go,” Naim whispers, unbearably honest-sounding. Scratch that, thinks Ryan.
This is the happiest he’s ever been.
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11 Aug 2026
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They’ve got less than four hundred bucks on them. Naim only had a creased twenty in his wallet when he got out of his mother’s car, the rest is Ryan’s, crumpled bills he’s been nicking from his parents for ages now. Meant for what, “I don’t even know,” he admitted sheepishly, exhaustion bleeding from his eyes, “Maybe for this.”
Ryan sits on the yellowing laminate floor of the bathroom while Naim showers, visible the entire time through the hard water build up clouding the shower curtain a milky white. He lends Naim a pair of clean underwear to wear, navy boxer briefs that match the bruises spotting Naim’s body, all the places that thing slammed into him, and held him down, and hurt him—
“I don’t have any clothes.” Naim says stupidly to the blurry outline of Ryan moving behind the shower curtain when it’s his turn.
[Or: Naim and Ryan, after]
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09 Aug 2026
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“I think people underestimate how stupid the human brain really is. It’s all very simple, the way we work. Remarkably so, honestly. If something causes us pain, our brain tells us to avoid it. Fear is one of the most singularly powerful motivators for survival we possess.”
Cardboard bites into Naim's palm. Fingers open, then close, crumpling it smaller and smaller, the coffee soaking between his fingers where the bloated paper releases it.
"So what happens when someone betrays you so thoroughly? How does your brain decide to process that? You’re fighting back against your own base instinct.”
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Naim steps off the bus into a new life- but that doesn't garuntee it'll be easy.Bookmarked by nightowl
30 Jul 2026