you were now standing in your room, between your mark and some other variant of him. you didn't really know what to do when mark had come to find you in your room, but you knew you needed to keep space between both of them.
"(y/n), what are you doing...?" your mark asks you, and for a moment, you see a flash of irritation in his eyes. "he's not me, he's not safe to be around, he needs to go to the gda."
you feel the other mark shift at the mention of being turned into the gda, and your heartbeat picks up at the tension filling the room.
"mark, he's- he didn't hurt me, it's fine," you speak.
"you heard him," the other mark began, "i never hurt him, i just came to take him back with me." but the moment he said that, you could see mark's body tense up, eyes looking at you in disbelief.
"(y/n), come. here." mark doesn't sound angry, but scared, as if he was going to lose you in that very moment.
"or you could stay with me (n/n), please?" he had used the nickname your mark had for you... but your mark stopped calling you that after middle school. and his voice holds so much tenderness, your body doesn't know whether to go forwards or backwards.
you're stuck.
but before you could even snap out of whatever shock you were in, an orb came up behind the mark variant, a flash, and then nothing. he had disappeared as soon as he had found you.
now your mark had let out a deep sigh of relief. "okay, the gda must have gotten my signal, you're alright now-"
"mark, what the hell!?" you shout out before you could even think. you see mark almost take a step back at your voice, but he quickly recovers.
"what do you mean? i just saved your ass-"
"no you just... you just-"
he cocks his head to the side. "i just what (y/n)?"
"you just think all about yourself, don't you? when i finally have something good, you want to take it away," you say cooly. you know what you're saying might sound like nonesense to him, but it holds truth.
"i didn't take anything away from you, i just care-"
you let out a snark laugh. "oh you care? i thought you stopped caring after you started dating amber." there, you said it, and it felt good to say it. you look up at mark as you blink the tears out of your eyes, and by the look on his face, you know that he knows you're right.
but you had really started drifting after that night on his rooftop.
"so now, when there is some version of you, that actually loves me, is out there, you ruin it because 'it isn't safe'? yeah, some friend you are." it hurts to say, but you're angry.
angry that you had something so close, but now so far.
"i love you."
your breath hitched, and you finally really looked into his eyes. they're full of tears, but also full of something you've been begging to see for years.
love. they're full of love.
"i do love you (y/n), i just... i was so fucking scared-" his voice breaks, and your body moves before you can think. you walk over and hold him as he sobs into your shoulder. "i was scared."
"was it your dad? you could have told me that night instead of-"
"i know, i was being stupid." and you agree with that, but you still feel a bit hurt.
mark told you that he was confused, that the night you two had shared together had been wrong, a mistake. and even though you put on a smile, told him that you understood, you were crushed.
"i didn't want my dad to find out about you, use you as blackmail... but i wasn't ready to mess up our friendship either," mark whispers the last part quietly.
you take your hand and move it to lift up mark from your shoulder. brushing a thumb under his eye, cleaning away any tears. "well, i love you mark. i love you. but you have to be real with me okay? what do you want?"
"i want you-" and that's all that you needed to hear. you closed the gao between the both of you, crashing your lips against each other in a desperate attempt to drown out the outside noise of the world.
after what seemed like forever, you slowly break apart from him. "then from here on out start acting like it okay?"
he shakes his head, pupils dilated as he stares at you.
you smirk. "i missed you."
he moves to place his forehead against yours. "i missed you too."
Its been forever since Ive drawn something Invincible related. but since I finally finished watching the last episodes these days I figured Id sketch one of my favorite characters, Cecil Stedman. went for his show look since I like how slick it looks.
Maybe these days Ill draw some other invincible things. Its a BIG maybe, but hey well see. Was thinking, Unmasked Mark with blue suit, Immortal, Ductapeman or even Battlebeast, i'll see what mood im in for.
Cecil’s 1#, Donald is just a little clumsy at the GDA, even if it’s on purpose.
Donald Head cannon timeeeee + spoilers
Donald some times dosent sleep for days bc he doesn’t have, to so the few staff who are on shift switch will see him multiple times a day and everyone is wondering if Donald has a caffeine addiction or is on some GDA drugs. HR is having a hard time coving up the fact he’s an android.
Donald loves to imitate Cecil’s long baths so he fills up his tube and just sticks his eyes above the water like Cecil dose. It makes him feel like a crocodile in the water.
He dosent have an office so he just crashs in Cecil’s office couch some times and naps for a few minutes
Donald had night vision so during any black outs he’s the one who has to fix the breaker
Some times he’ll bit through forks and spoons if he’s stressed while eating.
He loves to work out for the fun of it.
He used to go hunting before he worked for the GDA. Some times during fights he’ll imagine that he’s hunting deer.
