Stage Lights AU
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Callum had always loved the theatre, but he'd put that dream aside to please his father. Now that he was back from the army with a great therapist and a not-so-great case of PTSD, he allowed himself to finally indulge in his theatre dreams. There was only one problem- Ben Mitchell.
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- Part 1 of Stage Lights AU
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Ben Mitchell wasn’t nervous.
Ben Mitchell didn’t get nervous, ever.
But fuck, was he stressed- because Callum Highway was about to pick him up for their date. Callum Highway, perfect Callum Highway- the man that laughed at all his stupid jokes like they were the funniest thing in the world, and who brought an extra coffee with him to rehearsals in the morning, and somehow, by some insane miracle, he’d gotten a date with the man. How? That was beyond him. But the important thing was that he’d gotten the date, and he had to be perfect.
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- Part 2 of Stage Lights AU
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They were about a month in the first time it happened.
It wasn’t a rarity to see Ben and Callum curled up in the same bed anymore, particularly in the cosy room of Callum’s flat. Whitney had grown less and less surprised to see Ben in the mornings now, sat almost naked in front of the sofa.
So, yes- it was almost normal to her now seeing Ben walking around their apartment most mornings. She’d even asked Callum why he didn’t just move in, to which Callum just blushed and shrugged.
What wasn’t normal was seeing Callum calling him at 3am, when she’d gone to spend the weekend with Tiffany.
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- Part 3 of Stage Lights AU
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Except now, Callum wasn’t just one of Ben’s one-night-stands, he was his boyfriend. They were together, and it was slow and sweeter now, a gentle press of their bodies together, no sense of urgency. Now, Ben was overcome with this overwhelming need to know everything there was to know about Callum, about this strange, beautiful enigma of a man lying in front of him.
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- Part 4 of Stage Lights AU
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It’s a feeling like no other, standing backstage when you know there’s an audience full of people just around the corner, waiting to see you. The heat that’s burning off the stage lights, the adrenaline that’s almost palpable through the air, pulsing through the rest of the cast- it’s exhilarating, and sickening, and so, so addictive all at once, and Callum doesn’t think he’ll ever forget it. Fuck, especially opening night- he should be nervous, and there’s a part of him, of course, that’s shitting himself, but it doesn’t beat the feeling of this is what I’ve always wanted.
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- Part 5 of Stage Lights AU