Meme: send “grip” to grip my muse’s jaw in your muses handStatus: acceptin’
They…had not been easy. Though goodbyes never really are, are they? Whether its for a day, a week…or a life time. Because once he goes, there’s no going back. Forever displaced from this ground upon which he was born. Bound for another realm where he will live out the rest of his life. And while in comparison to current company that is…not that long–how much the concept of forever hangs over his shoulders, like atlas holding up the earth.
Heavy steps that carry him down the steps of the truck. Out of the darkened cage and out into the early morning sun. He’d spent last night telling his parents goodbye. They were probably half way around the world by right now. Facing their day with the knowledge their only child was moments away from being gone for good. Alive but gone. And it’s that thought that has him taking in what he can of the open field in which he stands. Surrounded by a small team of SHIELD’s finest. One of whom lowers their weapon when the approach.
Don’t blow this. Nice and easy. Here to there and out of our hair. Got it?
A nod even though he never gives them the courtesy of looking at them. To focused on the person ahead. Standing just out of arms reach of his detail. The person that was giving him a chance, a place to be without cages and chains. Someone else that loves him despite the fact maybe they shouldn’t. But there’s no undoing it now. Choices were made, choices that could not be undone.
One foot in front of the other. Coulson coming out of the proverbial wood works. He should have known the director would show up. Can’t send off one of your greatest security risks without someone in charge standing around to make sure they disappear like promised. The small group of agents closing in around him like a gravitating wall of guns and unspoken ‘try us’. Though he’s ignoring it as best he can. Focused entirely on the over sized blonde that waits for him. That greets him with a small nod.
Still as stone as the restraints at his wrists are removed. The damned power blocking collar around his neck. The thick clunky thing winding down and popping apart as it’s pulled free of him. Bastian rolling his neck and shoulders once it’s gone. The slightest of glares over his shoulder, as he’s encouraged to step forward by the butt of a gun behind him.
Go on. One over powered super freak was already one too many.
And that lights it doesn’t it? That temper of his that could go one to a billion in one second flat. But even as he’s moving. Fingers curling; a sharp grip to his jaw stops him dead in the water. Six feet plus of thundering god yanking him back from the brink. Grounding him again into the real world, and the compromise that’s been painfully drafted to see him here to begin with.
Not here. Remember what you promised.
Tenuous seconds beat by in the heart beats of everyone present. Hang from the ends of the dozen guns all pointed at him. Beat in between the heat lightening that’s always set’s Thor’s gaze shining brighter than his ever could. And inch by painful inch, he relents. Turns away from the smart mouthed agent and goes where the would be god leads.
Because Thor’s right even if Bastian doesn’t want to admit it. It’s over. His time here is done. And he has no one to blame but himself.
Heimdal! When you are ready.