Notes: Written for Kalpurna
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"Your bassist," Gerard said, "is fucking my brother."
"Yes," Patrick replied, and that was how he met Gerard Way.
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When Patrick first heard that they'd be touring with My Chem, he resigned himself immediately to having a hopeless crush on Frank Iero. Hey, he was a guy with a type, and Frank was it. So it just made sense to get that out of the way before the tour even started.
Except then it was Gerard who was showing up at their shows with Mikey, standing backstage and watching with this tiny smile on his face. Pulling Patrick aside later, when Patrick was a little tipsy and Gerard wasn't, and saying "You guys are good. You're good."
It was Gerard who would cover Patrick up with a blanket when he crashed on their couch after being kicked off his own bus, and Gerard who woke him up in the morning by waving a mug of coffee under his nose and settling his hat on his head.
Frank, it turned out, was less Patrick's type than he had thought.
It was about a month into the tour when Patrick kissed Gerard for the first time, backing him up into the side of a bus and catching his startled laughter with his lips. Gerard's hair was still sweaty from being onstage, and when Patrick pulled away, Gerard reached out to brush a smudge of makeup from his cheek.
In the next city, they got a hotel room, and didn't leave it except when they were onstage.
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"Your singer," he heard Mikey say to Pete one morning as they both stumbled back onto Mikey's bus, "is fucking my brother."
"Yeah," Pete agreed, and Patrick hid his smile against Gerard's shoulder.