shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Pain-Sharing soulmate AU, #ghoap #ghostsoap, cw for implications of child abuse Little John McTavish wasn’t even four years old when he learned how to take a fist to the face and keep going. 19026
shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025When he learned that pain didn't stop when you cried, and that sometimes there were bad people in the world and no one stopped them. He learned that the world was unfair, and sometimes you couldn’t help the ones you loved. He learned that he *hated* it. 1160
shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025His family loved him, they loved him *so much* but they didn’t know how to help him. They didn’t know how to help, when in the middle of playing with his sisters — or dinner, or reading, or footie in the back garden — he would flinch back, cry out; 1180