#Hurt/Comfort, #Father-Son Relationship, #Thunderstorms, #Anxiety, #Panic Attacks, #But just a little one, #Alberto Scorfano Needs a Hug, #Alberto Scorfano Has ADHD, #Good Parent Massimo Marcovaldo, #Alberto Scorfano & Machiavelli Are Besties, #Mentioned Giulia Marcovaldo, #Massimo and Alberto are learning to communicate better, #ciao alberto, #ciao alberto spoilers, #I started this before it came out and finished it immediately after, #I'm a sucker for found family

* Alberto gets frightened by a thunderstorm one night, and when Massimo does what every good parent should, he's not entirely sure how to take it

#Found Family, #Alberto Scorfano Needs a Hug, #Pre-Relationship, #it takes a village to raise a traumatized little fish boy, #Coping, #Healing, #learning to let people love you, #Good Parent Massimo Marcovaldo, #Long-Distance Friendship, #Implied/Reference Child Neglect

* It had been a home, once. A home forced on him, true; a home he was left in. But through hungry days and cold nights and determined, defiant acts of survival, he'd made it his. A place where he made his own happiness. A place he'd been delighted to share with Luca, during those first golden weeks of their friendship.

* A place he hasn't been back to in five months, one week and three days. Counting is a hard habit to break.

* - or -

* Alberto Scorfano decides he can't leave well enough alone.

#Humor, #Fluff, #Friends to Lovers, #Slow Burn, #expect no resolution here my friends, #Confessions, #crackfic, #but give it feelings, #no beta we die like men, #and all my friends are tired of my luca obsession, #Gay Fish Boys (Luca)

* Alberto drops a bombshell at dinner with the Paguros, and it has the potential to change his friendship with Luca forever.

#Pre-Canon, #Missing Scenes, #Post-Canon, #Canon Disabled Character, #Queer Themes, #I gave Giulia's mother an entire backstory that's mostly in my head, #massimo's a good bro, #And the Best Dad, #Homelessness, #Hurt/Comfort, #liberal use of Italian, #Unconventional Families

* Massimo meets, and tries to adopt, a runaway sea monster.

#Slice of Life, #Minor Violence, #Hurt/Comfort, #Fluff and Humor, #Platonic Cuddling, #Platonic Relationships, #Puberty, #Miscellaneous Adolescent BS, #Sea monster Physiology, #Self-Harm through neglect, #Self-Destructive Behavior, #Miscommunication, #Lady and the Tramp (1955) References, #Alberto Scorfano Needs a Hug, #and by god he gets one, #Alberto-focused but not his POV, #Alberto and Giulia are chaos siblings and i'm living for it, #Alberto pulls one of his own teeth out of his mouth so here's a warning for that, #Ercole hate crimes Alberto off screen but it is addressed verbally and also he catches these hands, #Alternate title: When You Finally Have a Support Network But Have No Idea How To Use It

* The first summer back is the hardest. Why is that?

#Bruno is Alberto Scorfano's Father, #Blood and Injury, #Hurt/Comfort, #Abduction, #Sea monster Physiology, #Fist Fights, #Angst with a Happy Ending, #Emotional Hurt/Comfort, #Trauma, #Attempted Murder, #oh lord this one is so messy kids, #Kissing, #Getting Together, #Developing Relationship, #also can i just say: GIULIA GIULIA GIULIA, #Protective Siblings, #Emotional Manipulation, #Non-Graphic Violence, #Platonic Cuddling, #Child Abandonment, #Childhood Trauma, #Closure, #Crying, #Reconciliation, #Courting Rituals, #Injury Recovery, #Stitches, #Idiots in Love, #Friends to Lovers, #Everybody be cryin in the club, #Minor Character Death, #Oviparous Offspring, #Broken Bones, #Panic Attacks, #Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, #Child Neglect, #Flashbacks, #Sloppy Makeouts, #Angst and Drama

* Alberto scoffs and says I've seen television, which is a clear indication that he's being literal. He's never sat down and actively watched anything on one before. he still climbs over the back of the sofa to sit beside her. He throws his arm behind her shoulders, and Luca leans into her side, and Giulia sighs and smiles, squashed comfortably between the two of them.

* She's going to miss this the most when she goes to London.

* But even knowing that it's going to end, she can't wait for summer to begin.