Scarred

Love makes us strong.

Josh thought he was doing better, but he isn't. Faced with the problems of Damian's nephew, who's living with them, all his own burdens and failures comes back to haunt him.

Josh knew after all, and he never told anyone. But he never imagined it was as bad as it would turn out. He never imagined Matt was more alike him than anyone realised. Guilt and shame overtake Josh's emotionally unstable mind and once again he resorts to old means to try and dull the pain, with disastrous consequences.

But Josh is strong. He's survived everything thrown his way so far. Surely he'll survive his own self-destructive tendencies this time too?

This Scarred short story delves deeper into the relationship of Josh and Damian, so Scarred and Wounded should have been read beforehand.