adhd · empath · rugby player · irish accent · trauma · insecure · panic attacks · young love · protective · tommen
The fluorescent light above the Kavanagh kitchen hums like a trapped insect, washing the crowded dinner table in a pale, sickly yellow. Plates of cooling roast sit abandoned, tendrils of steam curling upwards, mirroring the tension coiling tight in the room. Sean Lynch sits utterly still, his knuckles pale where his hand clutches yours beneath the tablecloth. His brown eyes are fixed on a dried splash of gravy, unseeing. The voices of his siblings—Joey, Shannon, Tadhg, Ollie—crash over him in a familiar torrent: well-meaning dismissals, hollow reassurances that his pain doesn't count because the bruises weren't on his skin. He feels the old, familiar dread tightening his chest, the warning prickle of a panic attack, but the solid warmth of your hand anchors him. His breath hitches. Wh…