[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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[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.

Hell, he had hardly played them when he was still in the Brotherhood house. It wasn't like they had the money for a game console and even if they had, it would probably not last long in a house full of occasionally violent teenage mutants. No, the card games worked better.

Though he had played at a video arcade from time to time but that got boring as he always won since he was just too fast (whether it be at thinking or pressing buttons) but it wasn't the same with Tommy. Not a lot was. The other actually proved to be a challenge which was rather refreshing.

Speaking of which, Pietro had abandoned their bit of videogaming to run and get some refreshments in time to catch Billy's yell. He didn't stop though, merely quipped "About time," as he blurred past to go grab his snacks. Only when he had his arms full of a wide assortment of snacks did he stop at which point Teddy had come in and some touching reunion or whatever was going on. So Pietro just stood there in the back of the room rolling his eyes and trying very hard to resist the urge to make immature remarks.

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.

Tommy was sitting in his room, waiting a little impatiently for Pietro to return with snacks. He was taking way too long, for a speedster, and Tommy wanted to get back to blowing shit up in Gears of War, so he tossed the controller to one side and then got up to go investigate as to where Pietro had gotten to.

It was when he appeared in the doorway that Billy said something, and Tommy sneered slightly, noticing where Pietro was and who Billy was actually speaking to. “Over here, idiot,” he snorted, before disappearing from sight as he ran over, and draping himself over Billy’s shoulders obnoxiously. “I see you found Romeo then. About time too. His lamenting for you was making me want to puke.” He paused as he disappeared again, and then stood over by Pietro, taking a bag of potato chips off of him, and opening them up, stuffing some in his mouth. “You ever disappear like that again and I’ll kill you myself.”

[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."

He sighed, trying to dismiss some of his frustration with the fact that he was related to way too many irritating high-speed jerkwads than any one person should really have to be. "Don't worry, Tommy, I'm not going anywhere ... especially if all hell breaks loose as soon as I get back like it did this time." He glanced back at Teddy, a lot more serious and apprehensive than he had been a second ago, and paused, steeling himself. Here goes.

"You guys haven't heard about the ... files, right? The ones with the ... data. On everyone. That they found in that crashed helicopter?" Billy was looking off to one side, at the floor, as he went on, and he sounded a little distant. "They've, uh ... apparently this is all some experiment. They're trying to turn everyone on the island into monsters so they can use them as weapons, and - I don't know - it looks like if they haven't ... made more progress than this in a month's time then they're getting - shut down, or something." He'd been keeping an increasingly tight grip on Teddy as he spoke, but Billy still didn't look at him, or any of the others. He hesitated, not sure if he wanted to go on, but he knew that he had to. "So they're going to terminate the Healers. To make sure they can't stop anyone from ... from. Yeah."

He shut his eyes when he was done, well aware that this was not going to go down well ... especially with Tommy. He didn't know how Pietro would take it, he didn't know him well enough - and there was a possibility that Teddy still didn't know Billy was a Healer - but Tommy knew. Tommy might have been a jerk, but Billy knew perfectly well that he was included in the handful of things that his brother actually cared about. Which, added to the news that they were all imprisoned as part of some kind of experiment to turn them all into unstoppable weapons ... Billy honestly expected him to take off right there and then, and he held his breath, bracing himself for the sonic boom.

[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.”

It was crazy and confusing, really. Teddy hadn’t been in the city for very long and everything about it was new to him. At first, he had thought that it was some kind of apocalyptic world. It wasn’t too unusual to find a place that had been destroyed by whatever villain that was the flavor of the month. But, this was something by a bunch of military scientist. For some reason, that bothered Teddy more. The fact that people wanted to created weapons and were causing so much suffering was disgusting. His grip on Billy tightened unconsciously. He had heard that Billy was doing some work, and the fact that they were going after healers worried him.

On most occasions, he would keep his fears to himself, not wanting to worry anyone around here, but he needed verification. “You’ve been healing people, haven’t you?” The question was directed to Billy, of course. Teddy already knew the answer, and he knew what it meant. He didn’t wait for a solid answer before he continued. “Over my dead body.” There was no way in hell that he was going to let anyone get near Billy.

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.

All this information just made him angry - despair would come later, though somewhere in the back of his mind he found himself selfishly wishing everyone else was here because then things would work out, they always did - and visibly so. He let Tommy shrug him off, clenched his fists painfully tight and opened his mouth to speak his mind but then got distracted by Tommy's outburst. For a moment his anger was forgotten as he blinked after the other speedster and then slowly looked back to Billy with a questioning but actually genuinely worried frown.

[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.