Pete/Patrick is one of my favourite pairings of all time. It has a lot of things that really do it for me: BFFs, d/s flavour, the whole 'one person doesn't think they're hot while the other basically thinks they're sex on leg' thing, flirting in public, writing songs together... So, some things that are part of my Pete/Patrick head canon.

1. They are BFFs. This makes everything more complicated and risky.

2. Pete is a needy, bratty sub. Patrick is the toppiest top in topsville, except he doesn't always realise it. If it's this pairing, I have huge problems of reading it switched. I can only buy Pete as kind of toppy with Gabe and some of the Panic boys.

3. Pete totally had a massive boner for jailbait!Patrick and he felt really skeevy about it and tried to hide it behind jokey affection and ott leering. But the boner was real and massive and there was nothing jokey about how he felt (feels) about Patrick.

4. Sometimes Patrick still thinks he's nothing special. Then he realises that he has Pete and Pete is amazing and that must mean that so is he.

5. Very often Pete thinks he's nothing special. Or even that he's a fraud and a failure and no good and... Then Patrick reminds him that he's none of those things, but that he's just human and should let himself be that in addition to being amazing.

6. It's inevitable.