No! No he will not. He tries though, playing through most of the summer. It's a dangerous secret for them both but they both keep it, and when the summer ends and it's time for them both to leave they both promise to meet back at the little beach. And Chuck promises he'll teach Raleigh how to swim better.
They meet like this every summer, play and talk and keep secrets. Chuck looks forward to it over the winter months, looks forward to the one month he gets to spend with his human friend.
His mother dies when he's ten, and it's his fault. No matter what his dad or anyone else says, if Chuck hadn't needed saving then his mom could have been saved. He's angry that summer, lashing out; Raleigh's confused and hurt right back at him until he finds out what happened. Then he bears it, meeting Chuck blow for blow and sometimes with silence. It works for Chuck, everyone else is treating him so fucking carefully, Raleigh's the only person who's treating him like there's nothing wrong. And when he finally, shamefully, breaks down into tears in front of him at the end of the summer, Raleigh just lets him cry on his shoulder, sitting on a rock and wrapping his arms around him.
They're each other's first kiss four years later; it's not long before Raleigh and his family's leaving, and Raleigh's been worried all summer because his mother's been so sick, and Chuck just goes for it with all the daring and clumsiness of his fourteen years. Raleigh kisses him back and smiles; the next fall and winter and spring months are all the more difficult for Chuck with that memory, and the wait is torture.
That next summer has a distinct lack of stupid Becket though; Chuck waits on their beach, even tries looking around the little island, but they're not there. Raleigh and his family stop coming their for the summer and Chuck tries to forget all about stupid humans.
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They meet like this every summer, play and talk and keep secrets. Chuck looks forward to it over the winter months, looks forward to the one month he gets to spend with his human friend.
His mother dies when he's ten, and it's his fault. No matter what his dad or anyone else says, if Chuck hadn't needed saving then his mom could have been saved. He's angry that summer, lashing out; Raleigh's confused and hurt right back at him until he finds out what happened. Then he bears it, meeting Chuck blow for blow and sometimes with silence. It works for Chuck, everyone else is treating him so fucking carefully, Raleigh's the only person who's treating him like there's nothing wrong. And when he finally, shamefully, breaks down into tears in front of him at the end of the summer, Raleigh just lets him cry on his shoulder, sitting on a rock and wrapping his arms around him.
They're each other's first kiss four years later; it's not long before Raleigh and his family's leaving, and Raleigh's been worried all summer because his mother's been so sick, and Chuck just goes for it with all the daring and clumsiness of his fourteen years. Raleigh kisses him back and smiles; the next fall and winter and spring months are all the more difficult for Chuck with that memory, and the wait is torture.
That next summer has a distinct lack of stupid Becket though; Chuck waits on their beach, even tries looking around the little island, but they're not there. Raleigh and his family stop coming their for the summer and Chuck tries to forget all about stupid humans.