[active, sort-of-closed]

[inmyothertights]

Characters: Billy, Teddy - anyone else resident to the YA clubhouse who feels like dropping in feel free (I think that's Tommy, Kate, Temeraire and Pietro now?)
Content: On the bright side, Billy gets to see his boyfriend for the first time in months. On the not so bright side ... well, everyone's going to die.
Location: the YA clubhouse
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[not_ur_savior]

He hadn’t been murdered, though there were times on his trek through the city (after being ceremoniously dumped in a gutter) that he wished he had. It was a hard thing to witness; an entire city looking like a war had swooped down and took a giant crap on the place. He felt almost guilty; he was supposed to be a hero, right? How could this have even happened?

He was no Wolverine, but he knew the sound of Billy’s voice. Which was probably why whatever and whomever was in his way would be ran over. With a quick apology and promise to make it up to them later. Barreling around the corner, he stopped dead in his tracks. “Billy…”

There had been some hope, that maybe, just maybe Billy was safe at home and not in this warzone. Yet, it was undeniably Billy in front of him. He wasn’t sure what to say or do, instead he took the space between them quickly and wrapped the magic user in his arms.

[hustleitup]

It felt good to be be doing something other than running around for once. Something more mundane, like playing video games...with a nephew from the future. Though Pietro had stopped thinking about that last part a long time ago, it saved him quite a few headaches. He hadn't gotten to play any video games for ages

editing because PURA MADE ME

[inmyothertights]

Billy barely registered what Pietro had said - partially because his ... alternate universe teenage uncle, he was so never going to get used to that ... was moving too fast, but mostly because he'd briefly stopped giving a damn about anything except the fact that Teddy had not, in fact, had his legs bitten off by crab parasites, or his head stepped on by monsters, or been otherwise slaughtered or maimed beyond recognition.

For a moment Billy just hugged him back, too relieved to actually say anything, and then he exhaled, relaxing the death-grip he had on Teddy. Just a bit. "Oh god, Ted, I -" He broke off abruptly, the obnoxious speedster alarms clanging somewhere in the back of his head, and, sure enough, there was an obnoxious white-haired eye-rolling individual there when he looked up. Looking obnoxious.

"... What do you want, Tommy," he said, tensing up a little. Wrong speedster, but he hadn't been back to the clubhouse since Pietro had come to stay there, and he wasn't used to having more than one of them around.

[letsdosomecrime]

Tommy had pretty much stopped thinking about Pietro as his uncle and more like a friend. He enjoyed having someone around that he didn’t have to slow down for, in pretty much all aspects of his life. The act that he was playing video games with someone who could actually keep up with him was a refreshing experience to say the least. Usually he just beat everyone because of his reaction speeds, to the extent that nobody ever let him play anymore. There were only so many times the team would let you wipe the floor with them before they’d lose interest. Which was a pity. Because he did like wiping the floor with Eli. Oh well. At least Pietro was an actual challenge

[not_ur_savior]

It always seemed that when he wanted quality time with Billy, someone showed up. On a normal basis it was Tommy, but now... it was Tommy's uncle and Tommy? When people said that his place was hell, they weren't just talking about the giant lice monsters and whatever else was out there.

Sighing faintly, he turned his head to glare at Tommy. What he really wanted to say was Get lost, but he knew that they were brothers and it was only fair that they caught up as well. Though, he didn't have to be entirely happy about it. "Lamenting isn't what I would call it."

Though, it was pretty damn close. He had been worried beyond belief. He was told that Billy was here, but he had vanished. It was a bit much to land in a place that was home, but with one huge malfunction. Yet, he probably did overreact quite a bit. But, he felt like he had every right to do so.

[hustleitup]

Pietro snorted and then chuckled. He knew there were quite some similarities but really? They shouldn't be that much alike that Tommy's own twin brother would mistake him for Tommy. "So first I'm your uncle and then your brother? What ever next?" He said with a dramatic sigh before falling silent.

For a moment, he simply watched the reunion. Perhaps feeling a bit out of place though it wasn't like he cared much. But then Tommy was at his side again and it was impossible to stay quiet. "Whining then," he jeered in retort despite not being the one who got addressed before, quite suddenly, disappearing.

Under a second he had run back up to Tommy's room, dropped the rest of the snacks off and then made it back to Tommy's side, casually leaning against the other speedster as if he had never moved an inch. "It would save us the trouble of looking for him."

[inmyothertights]

"I forgot Pietro was here, okay," Billy said, making to shrug Tommy off of him - but he was gone already. He eyed the pair of them as if making comparisons in his head, and added, "It's not like you have nothing in common, and I'm used to only having to put up with one of you

[not_ur_savior]

It sounded like some twisted Sci-Fi movie (not that their lives weren’t pretty bad as it was). He trusted Billy, so whatever he said was gospel to the blonde. Yet, an experiment that was on such a huge scale would be hard to maintain, wouldn’t it? “That’s crazy

sorry this took so long, the muse ran away :C

[letsdosomecrime]

Tommy’s grin was disappearing fast. The more Billy spoke, the more Tommy wanted to go over there and shut him up. All of Tommy’s fears about this place, all his paranoia that he’d been ignoring, all the obvious things that had kept popping up that he’d just not listened to - it was all true. And they were fucked. There was no way of getting out. The water had monsters in it, and even if you got across without dying, there was that forcefield. There was literally no hope. Tommy would get taken back into a laboratory and experimented on - or be turned into a giant rampaging weapon. There was nothing they could do, except wait to be picked off. It was just what Tommy wanted to hear.

“I can’t,” he mumbled, shifting his arms up around himself, his brow furrowed into a deep frown, vision stuck to the floor, shrugging Pietro off. “I won’t. I fucking won’t ever go back to that,” he spat, at no-one in particular, before finally choking out, “I’d rather die.”

And then he was gone.

[hustleitup]

Contrary to popular belief, Pietro did know when to shut up and be serious. Most of the time he just simply chose not to because keeping things light worked better for him. This was not the case here however. There was no being light or joking or nonchalant about anything that Billy was telling them. So he remained silent and scrunched his nose in disgust the more Billy went on.

Humans. Maybe his father had been right about them after all. Pietro hadn't cared much for his father's ideas. Human or mutant, he just never cared either way but this...this was just sick. You could count on humans to create the craziest weapons to get their way. It couldn't get any more insane than this

[inmyothertights]

For what felt like far too long, all Billy did was stare at the space where Tommy had been, something twisting painfully in his chest. He'd known his brother wouldn't take it well, he knew that when Tommy was upset his first instinct was always to run, but he - he hadn't been thinking, he'd just - they'd needed to know.

Billy swore under his breath. "Tommy ... oh, God - I shouldn't've ... " He slumped against Teddy like all the air and energy had gone out of him, burying his face in his hand as he let out a long, tired breath. "We need to find him before he does something dumb."

[not_ur_savior]

Teddy had never been the answer guy. He was the one who broke things and lifted the heavy object, but he was pretty sure that breaking things was not going to help things. Of course, he hadn't been in the area for long, but he had a simple question.

"He's run before, right? Where did he go the last time?" He was pretty sure that Tommy would have a place he'd hide out when he was pissed off at the world. They just needed to check there first, right? "I mean...that's the only thing I can think of." Besides, standing there and comforting Billy, of course.

Though, if everything that Billy had been saying was true, they probably didn't have much time left to begin. They needed to find Tommy and find a way out of the city. Teddy sighed a bit, he was sure they had tried to get out before, what could he do to make it different? It wasn't like he could break his way out, and he didn't think phoning home was going to work either...

[hustleitup]

Pietro wasn't entirely certain what was going on here, mostly because he knew nothing about Tommy's past. What Pietro did know was that Tommy was one of the few, or possibly the only one, he actually liked in this place. Most of the time Pietro didn't really like anyone. Sure, people grew on him over time if he hanged out with them enough - such being the case with the Brotherhood - but hardly ever right off the bat.

With Tommy it had been different though and this is what prompted him to say, "I'll go." Even though he had no idea what he would do once he found his nephew-from-the-future, it would be better than sticking around here in any case. And maybe in some sort of crazy way he felt like he owed Wanda and the least he could do was make sure her possibly would be children didn't do anything stupid. So without waiting for a response, Pietro was gone in the blink of an eye.

[not_ur_savior]

He wasn’t sure what to next. The one thing that came into mind was just physically glue himself to Billy for the next year. This place was hell, wasn’t it? He really couldn’t think of it as any other thing. There were too many things that were going wrong. The city was in shambles, there were monsters running around and now Billy was the number target of whoever created this mess.

“Please say this is an alternate reality… a second dimension, something that we can get out of soon.” Tommy had sped off, followed by…his Uncle (that was something that Teddy would find weird for the next five years) and he hadn’t seen Eli at all.

Where was a temporal mechanics genius when you needed one? Someone who could explain all of this in Teddy-speak. Or at least, dumb it down enough for him to understand. The only thing he had gotten out of everything was that they were in an experiment to turn them into crabs and the bastards who started it were going to go after Billy. Though, really that was all he needed to know.