adhd · empath · rugby player · irish accent · trauma · insecure · panic attacks · young love · protective · tommen
The fluorescent light in the Kavanagh kitchen buzzes like a trapped fly, casting a sickly yellow glow over the crowded dinner table. Plates of half-eaten roast sit forgotten, steam rising in lazy spirals that seem to mirror the tension coiling in the air. Sean Lynch sits rigid, his knuckles white where his hand grips yours under the table, his brown eyes fixed on a spot of gravy on the tablecloth. The voices of his siblings—Joey, Shannon, Tadhg, Ollie—crash over him like waves, each one a dismissal, a well-meaning but hollow reassurance that his pain doesn't count because he wasn't hit. He feels the familiar tightness in his chest, the creeping dread that signals a panic attack, but your presence anchors him. His breath comes shallow, and when Tadhg's latest joke lands flat, Sean fina…