Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
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This story is a story about the man who mastered all fear, and did inflict it upon others in the name of Justice.
It's not always a nice story, and the Hero of this story is not always that heroic, but... This is the story.
“Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?
Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified. ”-The Wizard of Oz”
This is how this story starts:
Wake up, Jonathan Crane. S’ time to start over.
Wake up. Wake up, Johnny-boy. Put your feet on the ground. We need to leave, right now.
‘What time’s’it, then?’
‘’It is three in the morning. ‘’
You have ‘bout five minutes to do this, so hurry it up. Reach under our brick-pillow-thing and grab the togs we made out of that reject pile of shirts no one wanted. Hasn’t that always been our life Johnny-boy?
‘Now’s not the time for insults, ‘Crow.’
Sorry. But hurry it the fuck up, Johnny-boy, we have to go.
‘’I agree. The standard of living here is sub-par, at best, and not at all conducive for growing into a healthy, somewhat well-adjusted young man. Therefore, it is only in our best interest to remove ourselves from the vicinity with all due haste.”
What the geek said.
‘Both of you be quiet. I’m at the window now, Scarecrow, so d’you want take over here?’
Thought you’d never ask, Johnny-boy. Let’s get the fuck outta here.
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