Hey, as my writing/edits sit and boil in hell, I'm gonna throw this out to everyone:
we often like to visit the What Are The Boys Doing In The Void hc in which Chuck and Auggie find each other after getting yeeted by the book, bump into Tommy and the three fight/argue/whatever for what seems like eternity, right? Literally just these three going off on each other. chaos. Sometimes we'll throw the boys meeting the Bellows in the void and have them scrap a bit, go off, etc.
Right, but uh... because I'm a thot for angst: Auggie getting thrown into the void and just wandering around this dark place alone for hours, days, weeks... you know, forever.
Then he hears something. In the distance. It's a small buzz, but it's the only other sound Auggie's heard in the emptiness since his arrival- so it's quite hard to ignore.
He can't tell whether it's a voice or... music? the engine of a car? a radio maybe?
Auggie walks towards it, but the sound slowly seems to shift all around him and he just can't seem to get close enough to even try to figure out what it is- but it feels like a call to him. He knows this, it tugs at his heart. His legs just naturally carry him wherever this sound moves.
Frustrated, Auggie sits down, hands on his head. Trying to make sense of where he is- cause he's not fuckin dead, or atleast his mind hasn't been quiet enough to think it through since he got here- wherever this is. He feels his throat tighten when he thinks about those hands wrapping around his ankles, where his friends might be.... Who are they anyway? Auggie can barely remember his mother's face, but she's somehow all he sees in this darkness.
Lord knows how much time has passed when Auggie wakes up, never realizing he even fell asleep. The first thing he hears is that noise again- no, that voice. It's louder and much more clear now! Auggie scrambles to his feet, ready to chase it down. He listens for it again.
Laughter this time. He knows this laugh.
The name sticks to his head. It repeats, rolls around and echoes all inside him. Chuck. Chuck. Chuck.
Walking towards the boy's voice, now mumbling over something Auggie still can't quite understand, he picks up his speed. Auggie runs towards Chuck's voice and even attempts to try out the name, "Chuck?" he croaks, his jaw hurts already. No response.
But he tries it again and again anyway. Auggie walks around, endlessly following bits of Chuck's voice. However, he's never close enough.
Same with Chuck when he gets there. They're never able to hear each other just right and they never meet. Just two boys lost, following a voice, a name they hardly remember, but they just know it's tied to them.
And it fucking hurts the two of them so much.
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