Hear me out... Tide and a villain he hangs out with after fights to just chill with
This didn’t really fit with my usual reader base BUT this idea was rrly great so I made basically a new guy that can now work as a evil-ish mentor to “telly” aka the main PD reader I write for I REALLY hope you enjoy because this was so so fun and in fact helped me work some stuff out for the main fic lore
Also this was just generally fun to think of
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Okay you do have to admit it was…. Weird as hell being here at the base
I mean.. you’re a villain.. well villain is a strong word but that’s the colloquial wording for what you’ve been doing
It’s was An interesting choice you have to admit but finding out the things about your powers that you did what was your choice? NOT violently dismantling the system? Yeah exactly…
You stood outside the door taping your shoes against the concrete
You sigh pulling out the key tide gave you and unlocking the door “fucks sakes” you mutter walking through the door and then closing and locking it behind you politely
You slowly meander to the kitchen where tide is cooking something that smells suspiciously good
“Hey”
He perks up and turns to face you “ah! Your here! Lovely!”
You purse your lips and nod this was the first time you’ve ever actually been here In his.. well house you suppose it was… a bit uncomfortable… “yep,” you look around “nice place… normal rules?”
“No work” you’ve done this before
“No work” you nod sight and shrug off you jacket and rest it on one of the chairs in front of the kitchen island “so, how was you day tide” you had done this to many times to count but you still quirk a small smirk
In costume you two would fight to the brim of death well.. you used to you explained the whole reason you were dismantling that dickhead scientist and his colleagues
For some reason tides punch’s started to pull
Until one day you just.. stopped pretty much
Him waiting until the last wire was pulled from the cloning tanks to knock you out
not throwing you in a cell before you were probably iced and bandaged
Small things
That some how led into hanging out outside of ‘work’ a few times
And now you were having dinner at his house… with the kids he was taking care of some are around…
“Well, the boys got through a full day of school and—“
The small red kid walks through the door “hey tide, I smelled something good are you cooki— VILLAIN!” He spots you and runs at you at a super human speed winding up for a punch
You work off of mussel memory and ptsd and instinct catching the boys hand, spraining your wrist maybe fracturing it, and flipping him on to the ground and pinning him to the floor
“Tide help! He’s got me! The villain!” The small red kid says muffled by his face smushed into the floor
You slowly realize what you just did and you pulled yourself out of your shock and stand up tide pulling you back by the shoulder
You kid rolls over to jump up and try to get you again but your backing away “sorry, sorry kid that was an accident”
“What the fuck are you doing in our base? Tide what haven’t you sucked all the water out of this guy yet!”
Tide walks up and sets a hand on the red boy’s shoulder “i said I’d have a guest over for stroganoff tonight, and you!” Tide turns to you and just sets his hand on his hips and looks at you with a look you can barely distinguish
“sorry tide
“M’ Sorry tide
“Dakota, go set the dining table”
“But tide—“
“Please” he sets a bundle of spoons and fork’s wrapped in napkins to the red boy- Dakota
“Alright..” he glances at you hesitantly before leaving the room
Tide turns to you one the boy is gone
“I can trust you here”
“Yes”
“I can trust you not to fight the boys”
“I have no qualms with them, we both jumped on instinct”
“No work”
“No work”