[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]

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.