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[gumnut-logic]

Nothing personal: Voices

Just Business | Nothing Personal - Voices

This is a fic is a sequel to @amistrio​ ‘s amazing Just Business. At the moment it is just a scene, but there may be more as there are sparks flying over here.

Many, many thanks to @amistrio​ for letting me play in her sandbox. I promise to clean up afterwards and brush the sand off the furniture...eventually.

Angst warning. This is very much a reaction fic, to that fic, but I kinda lost control of it...you know how it is ::puppy eyes::

But anyway, I hope you enjoy it :D

-o-o-o-

There were voices.

Many voices.

One was louder than the others, but it was the harshest and he shied away from it.

The other voices were far gentler. Like fingers combing through his hair. Tender, familiar touches to his cheeks. A rumble of a familiar baritone fraught with worry.

He frowned.

A calmer voice spoke reassurance and safety. Feminine, motherly, Grandma.

Grandma.

He smiled.

And was quickly punished, sharp pain stabbing at his temples. White hot tines driving into his skull.

He opened his mouth to scream.

But like the flicking of a switch, it was all gone.

And so was he.

-o-o-o-

He woke.

Or at least he thought he did.

The infirmary surrounded him. Something wet was dripping down the side of his face.

He blinked.

The light was bright.

“Scott?”

Dark hair and his brother moved into view. That hair was an untidy mess of curls. He couldn’t recall seeing Virgil’s curls since he was a teenager. His brother disliked them so.

One of Virgil’s hands held a cloth. It was damp.

Scott stared at it knowing he should be connecting dots.

He tried to reach up a hand to his face, but his hand was stuck, tied down...

“No. No.” Virgil dropped the cloth and grabbed at his arm. “You have a head injury. No messing up Grandma’s handiwork.”

Grandma’s handiwork. The traditional grandmother knitted or crocheted.

Grandma Tracy sutured.

He wondered what the hell had happened this time.

“You’re going to be okay.”

It was a familiar Virgil line, often said in situations like this one.

But his voice didn’t usually shake.

And usually he didn’t look like he had taken a dive through one of Two’s air intakes.

His brother looked awful and it set Scott’s hackles rising. “What’s wrong?”

It came out of his mouth but it echoed back through his head pounding on every neuron it could find.

He winced, screwing his eyes shut.

God.

The hands on his arm crept up to his shoulders. Fingers touched his cheeks as if attempting to suck the pain out of his face through their tips.

“Scott, focus on me. Focus!”

He forced his eyes open and found the deep brown worry in front of him. He latched onto the determination in those irises and clung.

“Breathe with me.”

Virgil sucked air in through his nose, and Scott couldn’t help but obey…

Obey…

Oh god.

“Scott! Scott, focus, on me. Here. You’re safe. Focus.”

Those dark eyes were his everything.

His heart thundered in his chest but his lungs drew in air through his nose, and let it seep out between his teeth.

And again.

Again.

His brother’s hand was warm against his cheek and he found himself turning into it.

“Good, Scott. Stay with me.”

Their breathing matched as his heartbeat slowed, losing the panic, and the fear, calming…

“You are safe, big brother, safe.”

Then why were there tears in Virgil’s eyes.

Was this a dream or a nightmare?

A finger was stroking his cheek.

He sat in that moment - between love and pain.

Safe.

-o-o-o-

And he was gone again.

Virgil held his brother’s bandaged head in his hands a moment longer, his heart begging for those blue eyes to open again.

‘Virgil.’ A quiet, calm voice. ‘Virgil?’

A hand landed on his shoulder and gripped gently.

Virgil let Scott slip from his hold, the imprints of his fingers fading almost immediately as his brother’s head tipped slowly to one side.

Forcing himself to straighten, Virgil turned to face John.

His little brother’s eyes were bloodshot, but his face was calm. As calm as Virgil’s should have been, but he…couldn’t.

So, it had been left to John to be the rock of the family.

Virgil’s breath hissed out between his teeth.

The hand on his shoulder gripped a little tighter.

“Eos is still trying.”

“He woke up. He was himself.” Virgil sucked in a breath. “They took him away again.”

HE took their brother away.

Bile rose up in Virgil’s throat. The sight of Scott, blood smeared across his face, struggling in Virgil’s grip, desperate to OBEY.

The smirk on that…bastard’s face as he did whatever he did, his eye flashing in petty vengeance.

Eos had been trying to hack the signal ever since.

The Hood was blocked, yes, but the things were programmed to do what they were programmed to do and they were in his brother’s head.

Parting words.

“She will find a way.” John’s voice was certain, even as he sighed. “Grandma says you need to rest. I will sit with Scott.”

Virgil looked back at his big brother, limp on the bed.

With things crawling around in his head.

“I’m going to talk with Eos.” He gripped John’s arm and then slid past him towards the door.

“Virg-“

“I have to.” He pulled away.

And John let him go.

-o-o-o-

TBC?

[tsarisfanfiction]

Hello! For the WIP game, I’m very intrigued by….. well, all the titles, really. But to keep things simple: TAG Mundus Occidit Fratrum Meum and TAG Rarepair

MOFM was already asked about here so I won't repeat myself beyond a warning that it's probably the darkest thing I've ever seriously started to write so watch out for potentially triggering stuff over there.

TAG Rarepair is exactly what it says on the tin. This doc is more notes than actual written snippets of story so far, but I'll talk a little bit about the history of how this came to be, and see where we go from there.

People who were around when I was most active in the TAG fandom will know that I dislike Kayo and I can't stand the Scayo ship at all - which ended up reaching a rather surprising conclusion. I used to write a lot from prompt lists (and I wish I still had the free time to keep writing like that because it was fun and I still have so many yet-unanswered in my inbox), and there was one list in particular that I remember eyeing some of the options in fear - because this was before I'd really made my stance on Scayo, in particular, clear, and one of the potential prompts on the list was very obviously romantic, and I was worried someone would request it with Scott and Kayo.

I worried so much about this, in fact, that I twisted the prompt round and round and round in my head until I realised that if this scenario did occure (it did not, luckily no-one has ever asked me to write Scayo and at this point I will be very surprised if anyone ever does - please don't) I had a crafty little escape plan in place. Namely, I would pair Kayo up with some other character and twist the prompt so that she and Scott are talking about her other half. Obviously, I never needed this escape route, but it was certainly a relief when I found it.

As for who I paired Kayo up with... another Scott ship I hate is Scott/Marion (actually, I'll be honest, there isn't really a Scott ship I like at all, barring Penelope under certain circumstances). Kayo and Marion, meanwhile, seem like the sort of partnership where no-one around them will ever be safe but they'll have the time of their lives, and after a while my random little crackship made as a get out of jail free card started growing on me, so I started wondering if I could actually make a story out of their relationship. Will I ever actually write this? Unlikely, but it ended up being fun to think about.

There's a very small snippet of something written for this, though, at the end of the note-filled doc, so have a couple of paragraphs:

“Kayo,” Scott said, a little wearily, although she could only tell because she’d known him for so long, “this is Lieutenant Marion van Arkle, the GDF’s expert on nuclear power.”  He gestured towards the short woman in her radiation-rated GDF uniform.  “Lieutenant, this is Kayo Kyrano.” Kayo knew all about Marion van Arkle, of course.  She’d never met the woman in person before now, but she’d dug into everything she could find out about her since the uranium mine fiasco not far from Pretoria – just one of many ‘rescues’ that could have been avoided if it wasn’t for her uncle’s greedy plots – where she’d almost killed Scott. Scott had seemed to be content to let bygones be bygones, even going so far as to get the woman a job – not that Kayo could really disapprove of that; if the nuclear expert was under the GDF’s control, she wasn’t being a potential wildcard, and uranium expertise was a dangerous wildcard – but Scott was a hypocrite like that.  If it had been any of the rest of them bashed unconscious, trapped under a mech suit, and almost radiation-poisoned to death, Scott would have been the first person in line with the threats. Just look at his strained relationship with the Mechanic. In the absence of Scott’s ire, Kayo had stepped up instead.  The woman was still dangerous – while not the threat in Scott’s second encounter with her at Shackleton, her hypocritical nature towards Fuse’s right to be saved hadn’t escaped any of them. Not even Scott, and Kayo knew that was the reason behind his slight weariness in his voice. Now wasn’t strictly speaking the time to assess the woman in person, to match the live thing with the reams of data and holographic images Kayo had amassed of her throughout her life – from a young girl playing in crosscut tunnels to the lieutenant standing before her now – but Kayo’s job was to gather as much information on potential threats as she could. Marion van Arkle was certainly a potential threat.

[valkblue]

Hello! For the WIP game, i'm curious about misery 2x2

Hello!! ❤️ I'm super happy you're curious about it too!!!

Like I said before here and here, misery 2x2 is chapter 10 of Lost and Found (basically chapter 2 of part 2) and even though I keep repeating that it's going to be the darkest chapter of the whole story, I also intend to fill it with as much humor as I can! 👏 And Huttese too... 👀

And here's a little sneak peek of some Huttese troll humor at Din's expense...

The Hutt grumbled wet, grumpy sounds. "Wata soong porko moolee-rah che manlorey pankpa, huhuhuhu..." Elara shot an embarrassed look at Din and winced a smile. "She said—" "Yeah", Din muttered. "I got that."

I'm sorry, Din. 🙃

[skymaiden32]

Hello! For the Thunderbirds bingo, how about 'I want more!' and 'character you love to write'? :)

Thanks so much for the ask! ^^

First up, what do I want more of?

With how much the Anderson Entertainment team is giving us these days, from audio stories to book reprints to merch, there’s nothing I really want more of on the TOS front.

For TAG though, I would absolutely have loved to see more of what happened after the finale and Jeff got back home. I wanna know how everyone adjusted to him being on Earth after eight years.

Next question; who do I love writing?

The Hood is really fun to write. You can go absolutely ham when portraying villains, and IR’s archenemy is no different.

When it comes to the Tracy’s, I love writing all of them, but the top spot has to go to Gordon. There’s so much depth to him you can explore and I love trying to capture the difference between the family prankster and the former WASP officer.

[tsarinatorment]

Hello! For the Thunderbirds ask game, how about 'headcanons you love' and 'wasted potential'?

Hello and thanks for the ask :D

Headcanons I love: - Military!Scott and Military!Gordon (in TAG!verse, because they're sadly not actually canon there despite being canon in TOS). But anything to do with their existence is beautiful and I love it so much. - Science!Gordon - again, not canon in TAG!verse but dammit it should be because he's a smart guy who really loves his environment (especially aquatic) so let him actually know it - Aroace!John - I just really like the idea of an aroace main character and John works so well in that role with the way he behaves.

Wasted Potential: - More Mechanic interactions with the family; it would've been nice to see him with some of the other Tracys rather than just the odd confrontations with Scott. - Tycho Reeves should've been a reoccurring character. He deserved it and if he was gonna be actually working on projects with Brains it would've been awesome to see him reappearing again! - Kayo. Just, Kayo's entire character. She could - and should - have been good, but her execution was very "strong female character written by a man" and it was bad.

[riallasheng]

Hello, just wanted to drop in with an ask for the Thunderbirds bingo! How about 'wasted potential' and 'I want more!' ? 😊

EEEEEEEEEEE more asks!!! ^_^ Thank you so much!

I still don't have the bingo card image, so I'll edit it in later ^_^

Edit: Thank you again @myladykayo for the bingo card!! ^^

Wasted Potential

Did this with the previous bingo, so let me see if I can come up with new ones or at least a new angle on it for this!! ^^

Lady Penelope

Parker in the show. He got up to a LOT in the comics and novels, but he didn't really get to DO MUCH in the show proper and was often treated as a joke. I would have much preferred to see the Parker we got to know in the novels esp but the comics as well in the show.

TOS

I did John last time, so... who to do this time... Hmmm

TinTin. I really loved her calm and stubborn and kind nature, I love that she was an engineer, but she just never really got to DO much. I would have loved to have seen her doing engineering work like we saw a bit of in the novels.

TB2004

Fermat. I ended up really liking this 'young Brains' character and would have liked to have seen more of him or to see him show up outside of the 04 film

TaG

hmmmmmmm... Gonna go with Kayo and Eos post S1. Kayo went from a strong plotline and character arc to just one of the ensemble with no stand alone plotline. Eos basically got written out as the story went on

I Want More!

Lady Penelope

Just more novels or comics XD Give me more stories of this badass spy! ^^

In the works proper... Richard Lyon. It was cool to see a fellow spy and good friend to Penny and I always wanted to see more of him

TOS

John probably, but TinTin would also be high on the list ^^

TB2004

Fermat and TinTin (obviously the other three brothers, but more of what we actually GOT...). I ended up liking both of these characters and would have liked to see more of them

TaG

Ridley, Eos, Tycho, Moffet... Scott being competent and actually soloing a rescue... XD

[galfrey]

The most cursed ship i can think of is Lyra and Drubman Sr because Drubman Sr is the most cursed character i can think of

CURSED RATING: 10/10.

tbt that time she was threatening him in his home but he was rude to her and made her cry. so maybe she's killing sinners and gutting them to purify them with blood she still wants them to like her

[refinedstorage]

For the art prompt game... How about 💤 OC in their sleep attire, for Des? (Night City is such a wild place, I'm sure he needs some time to rest!)

Des has learned to crash wherever, however and whenever need and opportunity arise, so he'll sleep wrapped in his coat underneath the open sky as easily as in a fancy suite courtesy of a generous client/employer/fixer, but when he's just in the comfort of his own pad he prefers a simple get up like sweatpants or shorts.