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[vagrant_blvrd]

I can’t find it, but that post about the one with the guy who talks about their SO/spouse ALL the time and everyone thinks they’re dead? (That the guy is fueled by thoughts of one day getting revenge for their SO/spouse’s murder or whatever?

And it makes me want that FAHC AU where the Vagabond joins the crew and everyone thinks he’s that guy, right? Has that band of pale skin on his hand where there clearly used to be a ring. (Maybe he wears it on a chain around his neck now.)

Every so often he’ll go off on his own for few days. He gets melancholy when it rains, or certain times of the year. (Mutter something about a birthday - everyone knows it’s not Ryan’s, so it must be his SO/spouse’s - or around the holidays.)

It goes on like that for a while, a year or to, and Michael who is usually like, “Oh, shit,” when Ryan gets all sad and tries to cheer him up/keep him company so he’s not alone realizes he’s got FEELS for the guy.

And then he calls Gavin who’s been helping Burnie and the Roosters with a problem or maybe in England with Dan and tells him all about it, because Gavin will understand. They’re BFFs and maybe had an on again, off again thing a while back that never seemed to work out but they’re still BFFs, whatever.

Gavin is like “...huh” because he is totally Ryan’s SO/spouse but no one else relaizes? (Gavin talked about this guy he was seeing but never named names because Ryan’s a paranoid git.)

But because Ryan has also been telling Gavin that he’s got FEELs for Michael and Gavin is like, “Well then do something about it, you big dummy,” and Ryan hasn’t because he’s not sure Michael would reciprocate and what if he does but does’t want to be in a relationship with Ryan AND Gavin, and really, everything’s fine as it is.REALLY.

(Gavin is dying over how stupid these two idiots are, he really is.)

So he tells Michael to freaking talk to Ryan and vice versa, see if they’re on the same page about their FEELS for each toher first. (He’s going to be back in Los Santos soon, they can figure things out past the initial FEELs then, right?)

Only somehow there’s a miscommunication wherein Ryan never gets to tell Michael that his SO/spouse is still alive (that it’s Gavin) because he thought they all knew? (Like, really. The same birthday, and he’s let slip enough things they should have figured it out by now? And when did he say his SO/spouse was dead? And he thinks things are fine on that end, and hey, Michael has FEELs for him too! :DDDDD

(Likewise, Gavin thought Micahel knew/had figured it out and didn’t think to clarify since he was sleep-deprived from whatever he was working on half the time and thought everyone knew what was going on.)

But then something happens and Gavin has to stay away longer, but in the meantime Ryan and Michael are going on dates and figuring things out and it’s very adorable romcom, right?

And then a heist goes wrong or just bad luck where Michael gets hurt and Ryan’s like, “Hey, why don’t you stay at my place where I can keep an eye on you?” (Because conveniently the others are busy making sure the cops don’t find them/hiding out at safehouse/whatever/plot reasons.)

Michael does, because wow, convenient! (???)

And then Gavin comes home in the middle of the night and is like “Who’s been sleeping in my bed?” :DDDDDDDDDD (Thinking everyone knows what’s going on - he made sure Ryan talked to Michael but forgot he’s dealing with idiots???)because OF COURSE Ryan and Michael ended up snuggling (PLOT REASONS)

Michael is like WTF??? And also, ow, and WTF??? and it becomes this Thing with the three of them staring at each other like idiots.

Ryan and Gavin explaining that they’ve been married for a couple of years now (met on a job a few months after Michael and Gavin broke things off the last time) and just kind of never mentioned it???

Michael is like ??? because what even? (But then thinks about the times Gavin would take time off and come back looking obnoxiously happy. The time or two Ryan did the same, only he wasn’t obnoxiously happy so much as gleefully murderous (more so) and Jesus Christ, you two, because all the little clues and hints both of them let slip in the past make a hell of a lot more sense now.

But then he gets worried that he’s like. This thing on the side for both of them - and it’s never been serious on their part (he still likes Gavin a whole hell of a lot - refuses to say it’s love, because if it was, it should have been enough before, right?) - and Ryan and Gavin are just like SHIT, because it’s always been serious.

The thing with Michael and Gavin just didn’t work because something (someone) was missing and they didn’t know it at the time. And the Ryan and Gavin thing worked, but there was something missing there too but it was still new and then Gavin ended up leaving Los Santos for a while and it helped them figure things out.

But then Ryan joined the Fakes. (Gavin may have asked him to think about it when Geoff made noises about asking the Vagabond because he knew he’d be leaving and wanted to make sure he’d watch out for them for him, and knew without a doubt it would be a mutual thing - two birds, one stone and all.)

And he met Michael and things got super complicated even as they also started to make sense and really, they fucked up.

They fucked up because Michael is just staring at them not sure he can believe it’s all supposed to be nice and simple after all that. Like some stupid movie, and Ryan and Gavin are like, you do have a point.

Michael just sitting there, weirdly satisfied that they agree it’s all fucked up and can’t possibly have a happy ending just like that - what the fuck is wrong with him, he shouldn’t be glad about that - and they ask him what they can do to show him they’re serious, and he’s just.

???

And they wait and wait and wait, and Michael is like, ??? because he doesn’t know???

So they decide to do start over, do things right.

Go out on dates - all three of them or sometimes Michael and Ryan or Michael and Gavin. Sometimes Gavin and Ryan and Michael expecting to feel...something then, jealousy or d who knows what, but he doesn’t and it’s weird? (Makes him annoyed with himself because what is wrong with him?)

They have movie nights and other shit like that. Also plan mini-heists to Geoff’s deep, abiding regret and Michael realizing that oh, wow, hey, he has FEELs for these idiots and they seem to reciprocate and it’s kind of great???

And then smooching, because of course, and being stupid in love with each other.

ALSO.

The rest of the crew having no fucking idea what’s going on with the three of them, and when they do find out thinking Michael and Ryan are a thing, only to come across one of them kissing Gavin. (And the freaking out thinking they’re cheating??? To the point it becomes a Thing where the three of them are just like, “Uh, yeah. We’re a Thing. The three of us. Totally fucking like rabbits. Surprise?”