"I will stand up for you, no matter what you're going through. I'm still on your side..."

[tommyboyk]

Who? foundmywayout and tommyboyk
What? Spousal comfort
When? A couple of days after this
Where? The Karofsky-Kennedy home

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[foundmywayout]

Dave hadn't long graduated from college with Education degree, and being summer, he wasn't due to start his first teaching job until the fall. He had the part-time job he had worked most of his college career, a Promotions Assistant with ESPN. He loved the job, even if it was only base-level. It had gotten his foot in the door in the sports industry while he studied and gave him a good wage to support himself. He and Tommy managed to do quite well for themselves, and most days, Dave just couldn't believe how damn lucky he had to find someone he fell in love with and gave him everything he always wanted but never thought he would have. Just like Kurt had said, when he least expected it, it had finally happened after he managed to sort himself out and get more confidence within himself. Coming to New York for college, he had finally gotten the balls to come out and in doing so, met Tommy, whom he eventually told everything. In turn, Tommy had told Dave his own stories of his struggles with coming out and together they thrived in their

[tommyboyk]

Both men were extremely grateful for the jobs they had, and the chances and opportunities they'd gotten as a result of those jobs. But more than his gratefulness for their financial situation, Tommy thanked his lucky stars every day that he'd found Dave. The fact was, Tommy had spent far more time than he should've hiding his sexuality, and while he'd slowly come to grips with it with the large group of very diverse friends he'd made after moving to Chicago, it had taken him a while to be comfortable enough with his sexuality to want a boyfriend. But when he'd finally come to that place in his life, it was like a perfect timing situation with meeting Dave. They'd literally walked into each other's lives at just the right time, and things had developed to the point that it was more than just getting to know each other or even dating. They fell totally in love, and never looked back. There had been a time in Tommy's life that he was sure he'd never walk hand in hand with someone he was in love with in public. But it was with great pride

[foundmywayout]

"I'm so tired," Dave sighed when he had to end the embrace to shrug out of his coat, hanging it up on the rack behind the door. "I've hardly slept since I went to see him. Every time I close my eyes, I can just see him so sick in my head and then I remember back to how... vibrant and alive he was back in school. It's like this disease had eaten him up from the outside in. What if it gets to the point that he loses all those amazing things inside that make him the guy he is? It was that strength that used to drive me crazy. No matter how much I wanted to tear him down for being everything I couldn't, he just wouldn't fall or crush. He stayed up and I got more and more frustrated. Fuck, I was awful back then. I was sitting there listening to him talk, and the guilt over how much I tormented him was eating me up. I stole months of his life... a life that might not be much longer

[tommyboyk]

"I know," Tommy murmured, waiting until Dave had his coat hanging up before he stepped close again, his hands resting on Dave's arms. "I know you're tired... Sweetheart, I know this is killing you... Seeing your friend, someone who means so much to you, hurting and sick like this. But you can't..." Dave's words sounded almost foreign to Tommy, who only knew the gentle, beautiful man he'd married. He'd mentioned in the past that he'd bullied a gay kid once before coming out but never quite made it clear how much. Tommy's eyes met Dave's and he touched palm to Dave's cheek. "Hey... Sweetheart, you can't blame yourself or let yourself get lost in the guilt of what you did in the past. Kurt doesn't blame you for it, it's pretty obvious