Immortal grandpa is found
summary: Dr. Jack Bright was told by his grandmother that his grandfather died when he was six. When he found out it was a lie, he discovered that his grandpa was closer than he thought.
Sometimes immortality can be genetic. That’s something that Dr. Jack Bright has discovered recently. He knew about his own Immortality and used it in order to tease death many times (and to annoy his co-workers, some of the SCPs and probably his neighbors too.), but never truly thought about his family members.
When he was younger, Jack Bright was told by his grandmother that his grandfather passed away. Jack remembered just a little bit about his grandfather at this point- a young man with dark-brown hair and ocean blue eyes (For the record, Jack’s mother gave birth to him in young age). She claimed he died in a war or something like that. It was a long time ago, so Dr, Bright doesn’t remember much. He only remembers some blurry childhood memories, along with a tiny peek at the man’s look and his name- Joe. A long time passed since then, and Bright buried everything but a body.
That was at least until he decided to take a DNA test, and the doctors found a strange match. When Bright stared at the result papers, he never expected to see himself related to an uncontained SCP, especially one who caused an entire base to get nuked. When he searched through the foundation’s files, he finally got this SCP’s.
SCP-1504: Joe Schemo.
Bright held the papers tight. His hands were shaking and his eyes teared up. He had to find him.
There are many theories about Joe’s whereabouts, so Bright decided to take some time off to go test these theories. The one who made sense the most was that he lives with another breached SCP, SCP-2428-1 (Also known as “Mr. Mad”, who has breached on [REDACTED], and the two of them are in a town laying not so far from the remains of site [REDACTED].
Wearing casual clothes for the first time in forever, Bright walked down the streets of this small town, looking anywhere for any lead. And up there, next to the bar, he saw Mr. Mad. The blond man, wearing a trapper hat and bandages on his left eye, walked out of the bar and stopped as he noticed the doctor.
He blurted out a slur in Russian before he began to run. Bright chased after him, apologized to anyone he pushed out of his way. Mad was fast, but so was Bright.
Mad reached his caravan, ran over to the young man on the front lawn and held his hands tight.
“Joe, we gotta go.” Mad said. “One of the SCP guys is here... he saw me!”
That was when Bright reached over there as well, and Joe looked at him in a surprised look. He wasn’t surprised from fear, but rather... nostalgia.
“Jack?” Joe asked, walking over to the panting doctor.
Dr. Bright just looked at him, giving him a soft smile.
“How are you doing, grandpa?”
The three of them entered the caravan, where Jack saw another familiar figure running towards them. It was SCP-1424, Also known as “Patches”. The dog sniffed Jack’s leg, and his tail began to wiggle.
“Hey there, little guy!” Bright said, picking the puppy up hugging it. “Long time no see!”
“So you’ve met Patches, I assume.” Joe giggled.
“Used to walk the little guy around the base until everyone complained about ammonia poisoning.” Bright said.
“Man, these mortals are weird. Getting poisoned from a puppy.” Joe laughed.
“Sorry to interrupt you two but...” Mad said, confused as hell. “What in Wodertainment’s name is going on in here?”
“Mad, remember when I told you that I had kids?” Joe asked.
“Yeah.” Mad answered. “And one of them gave birth early, right? Eve, i think?”
“Yup.” Joe said.
“So... Dr. Bright is her son?” Mad asked.
“Yup.” Joe and Bright answered at the same time.
“Well, shit.” Mad laughed. “That explains a lot.”
“I’m afraid to ask what do you mean by that, babe.” Joe laughed.
“I’m gonna go grab some drinks.” Mad said. “You want some, Dr. Bright?”
“You can call me Jack, Mad.” Bright said. “And... sure. Why not?”
As Mad walked to the kitchen, Joe and Bright sat on the couch, with Patches laying on Jack’s laps.
“Grandma told me you died in a war.” Bright said.
“If there’s something I’ve learned from being Immortal is that you have to fake your own death before people would suspect,” Joe said. “You, your grandma, your uncle, your mom... sure, you’re all important to me, so I had to protect you from my secret.”
“Why would you protect us from your own immortality?” Jack asked, petting the dog who has already fallen asleep.
“There are many reasons, Jack.” Joe sighed. “I didn’t want anyone to hurt you. I didn’t want your life being ruined because of me.”
“You didn’t know I was immortal too?” Bright asked.
“Nope. Not really.” Joe said. “I was surprised when I heard Dr. Loyd talking about you back then.”
“Speaking of Dr. Loyd...” Bright began to ask. “Why have you breached?”
“You know my effects were slowly driving me crazy. When you’re being alive for so long... being IGNORED for so long... You lose your mind. So... the fact that you and Mad can listen to me calms me down.” Joe said. “And before you ask, the nuke wasn’t a part of the plan. Didn’t even know they can do this.”
“Every base can do that.” Bright said. “Why else I wouldn’t be allowed in the security office?”
The two of them laughed.
After Mad came back with a few beer bottles, the three of them talked and laughed about this and that, gossiped about this person and that person... Bright truly felt like a part of a family.
When he was about to leave, Joe asked him to wait a second.
“Look, I know you’re supposed to secure, contain, protect and shit, but uh...” Joe said. “Please don’t tell the foundation that we’re here. I know we’re not ‘normal’, Jack, but... We want to be treated like we are.”
Bright gave his grandpa a soft smile.
“Don’t worry. We’re family.” Bright said. “I won’t tell them shit.”
Joe pulled him into a hug.
“It was nice seeing you again, kiddo.” Joe said. “Sorry I wasn’t there for the most part of your life.”
“That’s okay, man. I enjoyed too.” Bright said.
And at that moment, Bright knew his grandpa came back to his life.
