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1. The Number of Breaths Separating Their Skin by mialmarosada

   Fandoms: The Young Ones (TV 1982)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   15 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Vyvyan Basterd/Rick (Young Ones)
   • Vyvyan Basterd
   • Rick (Young Ones)
   • Neil Wheedon Watkins Pye
   • Mike (Young Ones)
   • Vyvyan Basterd's Mother
   • Slow Burn
   • Yearning
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Vomiting
   • But like only a little bit
   • but i do describe it
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • insults as pet names
   • and they were ROOMMATES
   • Snow
   • Snowball Fight
   • Arcade

   Summary

   “VYVYAN!” He hears his own voice echo off of the buildings around them. “This is why I bloody well HATE YOU,”

   But he knows, he knows, that is not quite true.

    

   September, 1986. Rick watches Vyvyan throw up on the side of the road and has a sudden, horrible realization.

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   English

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