Flash of Thought

koifishiii:

Uhm, Yea, Feel free to ignore!

Not done yet obviously. Very unhappy with the charles and erik one, and I’m planning oneee more. 

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padawanbraid:

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amethystamore:

kaciart:

“So, who are we beating up?”

“No-one, I promised I wouldn’t” *sigh*

“I didn’t”

And now I have my prequel for this and this.

WARNING: mentions of bullying and injured characters

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“Sticks and Stones Are Better Than Fists and Feet”

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The cuts and bruises on Billy’s face weren’t healed yet by the time Eli got there.  And the witch was passed out on his boyfriend, clearly too exhausted to even cast a healing charm.

Eli’s blood was boiling.

Billy had mentioned he was bullied to Teddy.  And Teddy naturally told Eli since this wasn’t the sort of thing he could vent to Billy about without getting him upset or distressed.  Eli had taken the news… not as badly as Teddy had, for obvious reasons.  

But Billy was also his teammate… his friend.  A friend who clearly had no trouble standing up to bullies unless it meant defending himself.  And if Eli hated anything more than injustice, it was bullies.

“So who are we beating up?” he asks after a time, eyes still lingering on Billy’s black eye and swollen lip.

“No one,” Teddy sighed heavily, still frowning and holding Billy protectively against him, obviously pissed and frustrated. “I promised I wouldn’t.”

Eli let his eyes move back to Teddy, voice cold and serious. “I didn’t.”

Teddy finally looked away from his slumbering boyfriend, watching Eli carefully. “You know Billy would get angry at you for interfering as well… He hates seeing people he loves get hurt.”

“Well tough, because so do I,” said Eli sharply, standing up and pacing in aggravation, careful to keep his void level lest Billy startled awake.. “And it’s not fair that we can’t go out and protect him the way he would protect us because he’s afraid we’ll get hurt.  I’m sorry, but that’s bullshit.  He may be a witch, but in a physical fight without his magic?  He’s done and over.  You and I?”

Eli stopped walking and stared meaningfully at Teddy. “We can take a hell of a lot more than he gives us credit for.”

“While I really admire your loyalty, stupid and bullheaded it may be,” Kate’s voice cut in, causing the other two to glance up in alarm  as the archer leaned against the wall near the entrance, arms folding and face set in a determined glare. “I think we should respect Billy’s request and stay out of it.”

In an instant Eli’s composure broke. “You can’t be serious!”

“I am and shut up before he hears you,” Kate snarled nodding her head towards Billy as he shifted in his sleep, expression pained. Teddy instinctively pulled him closer.  

“You don’t seriously expect us to just keep letting this happen?” Eli growled under his breath, looking as though he wanted to punch a hole in the Kaplan’s family photo hanging neatly in the living room. “This has been going on for years, Kate. Long before any of us knew him.  And even after Billy almost killed a guy… Even after knowing what he can do, they’re still attacking him.”

“So you think, what, going in and bashing a few nimrods’ heads in is going to change anything?” Kate fired back. “You think it’s going to make Billy feel any better?”

“It’d sure as hell make me feel better,” Teddy muttered darkly from the couch, hand stroking up and down Billy’s back in soothing circles who the other balled into a fist.

“You made a promise to Billy that you won’t get involved,” Kate replied pointedly, hands on her hip as she met Eli’s glower face on. “And now you’re going to promise me the same. Or so help me, Eli Bradley, I will make you stay put… Even if it means knocking you out and locking you up.”

Eli took in a long shuddering breath trying not to loose his temper again, but Kate’s face never wavered, her resolve iron clad and staring him down until he relented with an angry. “Fine… If he comes home with more scars, though, it’s on you.”

“We’ll find a way to help him,” Kate assured, eyes softening and hand laying on his shoulder. “We’ll all find a way to help him.  Cause that’s what we do.  We protect each other… But we’re going to try it another way first.”

“And if that doesn’t work?” Teddy murmured, looking more worn down than angry now.  Eli looked at Kate with expectancy.

“Well,” Kate said gravely, a frosty look in the blue of her eyes. “Then God help them if we ever catch them doing this again.”

The silence in the room was so heavy that Eli almost missed the faint movement of white and grey passing up the stairs.

He took some sick comfort in the knowledge that while he and Ted were bound to sit back and lay low, others on their team made no such pledge.

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Tommy’s backpack dropped to the floor of his and Billy’s bedroom, echoing oddly in the space around him.  He sat down and listened to the others talk quietly among themselves downstairs.

Kate said they were going to try it Billy’s way.  Good for them.

Tommy stared into the mirror and saw Billy reflected back at him.  Split lip, bandaged cheek, black eye and all.  Like someone had taken his skull and slammed it into the pavement.

He shut his eyes and opened them again.  His own face grinned unsettling, and sinister back at him.  

Let them do it Kaplan’s way.

He was doing it his.

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Proof that I can’t write at ungodly hours of the morning. Bed time »;;;

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