FrieAme AU where Friede's a paediatrician and Amethio's a terminally ill inpatient. Friede's in charge of Amethio's care and keeps telling himself not to get attached but oops Friede gets attached. So does Amethio. Contains main character death, obviously!

Thanks to my good friend for always contributing great ideas! <3

Frie asking Ame if he wants to go home for Christmas/New Year's and Ame's just like "But why though?" and seems confused by Frie's question
[Me]
Frie: So that you can spend time with your family...?
Ame: Haven't I told you that I don't belong there?
Frie: Surely you guys spend the holidays together, right? Even if it's not Christmas, you celebrate something, don't you? And if not, you at least get together for the end of the year?
Ame: .........No?

[Me]
Ame: Are we... supposed to?
Frie: I mean. It's what a lot of families do
Ame: Since when are we like a normal family?
Frie:
Frie: Uh. Let me rephrase the question, then
Frie: Is there anything you want to do for the holidays?

[Me]
Ame: Not particularly
Frie: ...
Ame: How about you? What do you normally do for the end of the year?
Frie: Nothing special. I still work as much as I'm needed, since no matter what I'll have patients to keep an eye on. Sometimes my friends and I throw a New Year's Eve party, sometimes I celebrate on my own...

[Me]
Ame: Oh? So you don't spend time with your family at Christmas either, then?
Frie: It's... different when you're an adult, you know. We did stuff together when I was a kid.
Ame: Like what? Go overseas or something?
Frie: Nah, we'd...
Frie: We'd eat dinner together. And... sometimes exchange presents. Sometimes we'd watch a movie

[Me]
Ame: "Sometimes"?
Frie: [Shrugs] Some years it didn't really happen
Ame: ?
Frie: We didn't always have the money for it, I mean
Ame: Oh. So first you lecture me about my family being weird for not celebrating the holidays, and yet your family didn't do it normally either, it seems

[Me]
Frie: We at least tried. And we made the effort to spend our time at home together. You know, in the same room. Talking.
Ame: ...About what?
Frie: Huh? About our lives. Things we were doing. Y'know, boring things.
Ame: That sounds horrible

[Me]
Frie: Alright. Let's... not talk about this anymore, yeah? We're not going to agree. Enough about families. Do you really not have anything you want to do?
Ame: ...
Ame: Actually, could I...
Frie: Yeah?
Ame: Could I... stay over at your place again...?

[Me]
Frie: I'd have to ask permission-
Ame: I know. I don't care about that. I'm asking you, Friede. Can I stay over at your place?
Frie: [Grins] Absolutely!
Frie: IF you're allowed to!

[Me]
Ame's never thought about it before, but his family really doesn't do anything for the end of the year. They never have. He doesn't get presents. If he wants something, he can just ask (though he doesn't always get what he's after).
The idea of doing ~normal Christmas things~ with his family has never once crossed his mind

[Me]
Ame thinking to himself that maybe next year he could convince his family to do something together... and then it hits him that he's most likely going to be dead by then. That this'll be his last Christmas.
And potentially the only one he'll ever celebrate. Not with his family. But with his doctor.

[Me]
Ame also realises that, as far as he can remember, his family's never celebrated his birthday, either. People usually celebrate those - he's picked up on as much from reading books, but he's also seen a few other hospital patients have their birthdays celebrated by their families, and the hospital staff, too

[Me]
What would he even do for his birthday? He has no need for presents. They'll be useless to him within a year. Is that about spending time together, too? If so, would he end up spending it with Frie?

[Me]
Ame imagines Frie asking him what he wants for his birthday, and Ame...
Ame can only think of things that Frie could never give him. Good health. Happiness. Intelligence.
A family who actually cares about him

[Me]
Maybe he could be selfish and ask Frie for something intimate... Both for Christmas, and for his birthday, too.
The only thing he wants in this world that he can realistically be given, after all, is Frie.

[Me]
In my mind hospital AU Frie's from a family that was never that well-off. Maybe not poor, but they didn't have a lot of extra money for presents etc.

[Me]
He also didn't really get along with his parents. Maybe in contrast to Ame, Frie's mother was the abusive one and the dad was the one who ignored him? I feel like his parents had an unstable relationship somehow

[Me]
Frie left home as soon as he could. Maybe he lived with Lucca for a bit after running away while still in high school and that's when he decided he wanted to be a doctor, just like her

[Me]
Frie later asking Ame what he'd like for his birthday and it gets into a discussion about wishes. Assuming Ame wasn't ill, and still had a life ahead of him, what would he wish for?

[Me]
Ame then confesses to Frie just how much he resents Gibe for the affair and that he's always vowed to be better than his father. That he wanted to surpass him. (Like he later says in his letter to Gibe) Ame admits that his greatest wish was to be a son Gibe was jealous of

[Me]
He wanted to be a good husband and a good father. He wanted to create his own family, and show them - and others - what a loving, caring and loyal father is like

[Me]
Give them everything he never had. Be the father he never had. Show Gibe just how wrong he was

[Me]
Ame's in tears by the end of it, hiding his face from Frie, and he laughs at himself and says "I bet this all seems really stupid"

[Me]
Frie, in awe of Ame's determination from such a young age, can't think of anything to do but hug him. Gently, but enough to make Ame feel secure in his embrace.
"
No, there's nothing stupid about it at all. In fact, I think it's extremely admirable."

[Me]
Frie doesn't say this, but he can relate a little bit. He always wanted to prove that he was better than his mother, too. That he was a kind person, unlike her. But that was the extent of it. He had never really thought about the logistics of it. Just that he tried his best to be kind and compassionate and hoped that others would appreciate him for it

[Me]
But Ame? Ame had things planned out. He knew exactly how he was going to surpass his father: get married, start a family, show them love, be happy.
"
And yet, instead, he was sitting there in a hospital room, isolated, not having even been able to start achieving his goal"

[Me]
Frie, as he frequently does, laments the cruelty of Ame's situation. It really isn't fair.

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Ame is really so pure...... the purest boy who just wanted to make people happy, he makes me sad!!

[Me]
He wasn't even asking for much! He just wanted to love!

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He wanted to love and be loved and

[Me]
It's not the same as what he wanted, but at least Frie's there to love him... And at least he's found somebody he loves...

[Me]
He just wasn't expecting it to be a much older man lol

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Life works in mysterious ways.

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(In his next life, he wants to be a girl so he can marry Frie and have his kids and-)