No no no look at me. Stbipf!alex assuming time traveling Hank is an imposter because Scott would never and Hank calling him a racist because it’s Hank and even when he has a point (Alex is and always will be uncomfortable with mutation and physical mutations absolutely do bring that to the fore) he has to be an idiot about it
Alex traveling to the future and finding that not only is Hank crazy, Jean’s dead, Warren’s as good as, Scott’s on the run, and he’s a missing person or some shit. But his crush is winning at everything and never wears a shirt anymore
Thanks for the prompt, anon! I hope you enjoy! This is part of my and @joyandthephantoms's soft verse-- Julie/Luke qpps, trans Luke, Alex is Julie's adopted brother, Alex/Bobby at this point in the timeline.
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The fact that she makes it all the way to the beach without her phone blowing up with frantic “Where are you?!” texts tells Julie that her sneaking out was a resounding success.
It’s just after 2am, and the shore is dark and chilly, the cold sand illuminated only by stars and the lights of the city behind it. Julie kicks her sandals off and sits by the edge of the water, letting the evening tide lap over her bare toes.
There’s nowhere better to be alone with her thoughts than the beach at night. Julie closes her eyes, breathes in the salty sea air, and thinks to herself, Time to figure this out.
And then a voice behind her says< “Oh, you’re gonna be in so much trouble if Mom and Dad find you here.”
Julie scrambles to her feet, biting back a scream. When she registers her older brother standing barefoot in the sand, smirking at her, she whacks him with the back of her hand. “Alex! Don’t scare me like that!”
“Well?” He laughs and settles down into the sand next to her. “What are you doing here, kid? It’s the middle of the night.”
“Yeah, look who’s talking,” Julie grumbles, but she sits down again, scooting closer so she can nudge her shoulder against Alex’s. “I just needed to get out. Clear my head.”
“Yeah, I’ve been there.”
They sit in silence together for a while, listening to the waves crash along the beach, and then Julie says, “Are you in love with Bobby?”
Alex blows out a long breath. “Shit, Jules, coming in with the hard-hitting questions now, are we?”
Julie hugs her knees. “Well, come on, are you? You’ve been dating him for, like ever. Mom thinks you’re gonna marry him.”
Even in the dark, she can see Alex’s blush. “I am not gonna—” he starts, then presses his mouth closed and takes a deep breath through his nose. “Ask your real question. Is this about Luke?”
Julie hums, resting her chin on her knees. In the distance, some kind of fish leaps out of the water, like it’s waving at them. “I guess. Yeah.”
“You don’t think you’re in love with him?”
“I don’t think he’s in love with me…”
With each calming breath, Julie filters through another memory— Luke on their anniversary, asking why they had to go on some special date just because it had been a year since he first asked her out; Luke at the homecoming dance, spinning Julie around and complaining about the DJ’s music taste in the same breath; Luke in her bedroom window last night, crying that he must be broken, that he’s not good enough for her, that she should just break up with him and find someone who’ll treat her the way she deserves.
“I don’t want to break up with him,” she whispers, letting the breeze carry her voice away.
Alex makes a thoughtful sound. “Would anything really change if you did? You guys were creepy-close long before you put a label on it. Just go back to that and also see other people if you want.”
Julie doesn’t think she wants to see other people, but she gets Alex’s point. She and Luke wouldn’t have to spend any less time together than they do now. They already don’t do more than kiss, and Luke seems to find even that somewhere between boring and disgusting. Would anything really have to change if she just… stopped calling him her boyfriend?
“Look,” Alex says, pushing himself to his feet. “I won’t pretend I’m any kind of expert on this stuff. Bobby and I… Sometimes, I feel like he’s only dating me cause no one else will.”
“What? He wouldn’t—” Julie starts to protest, but Alex holds a hand up, cutting her off.
“Sometimes, I feel like I’m only dating him cause no one else will, too. It’s whatever, it’s high school. My point is…” He brushes the sand off his legs and holds a hand out to help Julie up. “Do whatever’s gonna make you both happy. And whatever’s gonna make sure that kid sticks around, cause he’s good for you. But don’t date him just cause you think you’re supposed to. That’s not fair to either one of you.”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right.” Julie hugs him tightly around the waist; her head only barely comes up to Alex’s chest. “Thank you.”
“Hey, what are big brothers for?” He ruffles her hair. “Now, come on. Let’s get home before someone wakes up and realizes we’re gone— I do not need Ray’s ‘mad at the GPS’ face trained on me tonight.”
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reggie Peters/Willie (Julie and The Phantoms), Julie Molina/Luke Patterson, Alex Mercer/Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson (Pre-Slash), Bobby | Trevor Wilson & Alex Mercer & Julie Molina & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters & Willie
Characters: Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson, Alex Mercer (Julie and The Phantoms), Luke Patterson (Julie and The Phantoms), Julie Molina, Reggie Peters (Julie and The Phantoms), Willie (Julie and The Phantoms), Ray Molina
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, nice neighbors, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Small Town, idk how to tag this man, Reggie and Willie are married and they own a ranch, Alex is New to Town, Veterinarian Alex, Writer's Mediocre Attempts at Describing Veterinary Medicine, The Mercers are Mormon but that's not like Important
Series: Part 2 of sounds like a damn good life
Summary:
“What’s going on?” Luke’s voice drifts up the stairs. The front door opens, letting in whistling wind and voices, clearer now.
Reggie and Willie’s voices, Alex recognizes after a moment or two. And they’re shouting his name.
Alex doesn’t waste a second. He vaults out of bed and throws his coat on over his pajamas, bursting out of his room just in time to meet Bobby halfway down the stairs. He doesn’t even have it in him to be embarrassed that Bobby’s seeing him in his nightclothes— urgency and adrenaline have overtaken him, leaving his heart racing but his mind clear. Something’s wrong, and nothing’s supposed to go wrong in this town.
“It’s Jelly,” Bobby says simply, and Alex takes the steps two at a time.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bobby | Trevor Wilson/Alex Mercer, Bobby | Trevor Wilson & Julie Molina, Alex Mercer & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters & Flynn Taylor
Characters: Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson, Julie Molina, Alex Mercer (Julie and The Phantoms)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - High School, Meet-Cute, Bobby and Julie go to prep school and are Music Besties, Sunset Curve Including Flynn Go to Public School and are Music Besties, Alex isn't out to his parents yet
Series: Part 1 of Prep School AU
Summary:
In the universe’s defense, Alex takes a different route home than usual. And actually before that, Luke ends rehearsal early so that he and Reggie and Flynn can go knife-throwing or something equally stupid, and they invited Alex to go with them, but Alex actually has a smidge of self-preservation so he politely declined, but he didn’t want to go straight home because he kinda hates being home, so he decided to take the long way through the nicer part of town.
So, really, it’s Alex’s own damn fault that he stops to tie his shoes in the middle of the sidewalk a few blocks away from David Lawrence Preparatory Academy for the Performing Arts and thus gets bowled over by an idiot walking backwards and not looking where he’s going, but Alex prefers to blame the universe.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ray Molina/Rose Molina/Willie, Bobby | Trevor Wilson/Alex Mercer, Bobby | Trevor Wilson & Rose Molina
Characters: Rose Molina, Ray Molina, Willie (Julie and The Phantoms), Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson, Alex Mercer (Julie and The Phantoms)
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Nightmares, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, narrative parallels, idk they're just soft and they love each other
Series: Part 3 of Just This Once (Everybody Lives)
Summary:
Ray’s awoken in the middle of the night by a warm breath on his face, ice cold fingers on his arm, and a soft, scared voice whispering, “Ray? Wake up, please?”
His eyes blink open, and Willie swims into focus— knelt up on his side of the bed in his checkered boxers, hair falling out of its braid, pale and shadowed in the late night darkness. Ray doesn’t know what time it is, but he can tell something’s wrong.
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In Bobby’s dreams, the paramedics tell him he’s too late.
I’m so sorry, but your friends didn’t make it. I’m so sorry, they were dead on arrival. I’m so sorry, but they’re gone.
He wakes up in a cold sweat, the image of Alex’s glazed eyes and gaunt face imprinted in his brain like it was branded there. Not even the sight of the actual Alex in bed next to him— sprawled on his stomach with his arms wrapped around his pillow, not too thin or too pale, visibly breathing— calms Bobby’s racing heart beat, loosens the fist around his lungs, or stops his brain from telling him it wasn’t just a bad dream.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bobby | Trevor Wilson/Alex Mercer, Alex Mercer & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters & Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson, Willie & Alex Mercer & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters & Bobby Shaw
Characters: Alex Mercer (Julie and The Phantoms), Luke Patterson (Julie and The Phantoms), Reggie Peters (Julie and The Phantoms), Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson, Julie Molina, Willie (Julie and The Phantoms)
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Fever, Background Reggie/Willie
Series: Part 1 of Movie Theatre AU
Summary:
Autumn was hard enough, keeping everyone fed and warm through the wet days and cold nights, but winter thus far has been downright brutal. Alex has been putting all his energy into making sure Luke and Bobby don’t get sick, because as hard as it was for all of them the last time, at least then they had real houses and their parents’ health insurance. Luke might not survive pneumonia in the Stella if he gets it again. Bobby almost definitely won’t.
It’s only the 15th of December, and Alex has lost so much sleep worrying about how he’s going to get his friends to March that he almost doesn’t notice when he wakes up feeling a little more run-down than usual.
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New G, Morgan, Lilly series! Starting if off with a sickfic cause have you met me? :) Enjoy!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bobby | Trevor Wilson/Alex Mercer, Alex Mercer & Luke Patterson & Reggie Peters & Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson
Characters: Bobby Shaw | Trevor Wilson, Alex Mercer (Julie and The Phantoms), Reggie Peters (Julie and The Phantoms), Luke Patterson (Julie and The Phantoms)
Additional Tags: Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Ex-Boyfriends
Series: Part 7 of aspen st apartments, 4b
Summary:
Alex stirs out of sleep as soon as the bed creaks.
He breathes a little sharply, his fingers curling tighter around the edges of his pillow. But he doesn’t roll over off his stomach, or sit up, or open his eyes. He just stays still and listens.
He’s very good at listening to people move around his room while he’s supposed to be asleep.
But it’s just Bobby, getting ready for work like he does every morning, always too early and on too little sleep. He’s moving more slowly than usual today, punctuating every few seconds of early morning silence with sniffles and stifled coughs. Alex waits, and listens, and only when Bobby lets out a muffled sneeze, stumbles into the pile of suitcases he and Reggie use as a nightstand, and mutters a raspy curse does Alex sigh into his pillow and push himself up.
“Hey,” he says, gruff but quiet, even though Luke and Reggie can sleep through a hurricane. “Feeling okay?”
