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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.

[whatgaviiformes]

☆ for chicken dad? 🙏

☆ - happy headcanon

Aw, I love this. Chicken Dad deserves a lot of happy. I'm glad you asked this one.

So for those not in the know, Gordon in this AU never fully healed from his hydrofoil accident. It's not about the accident so much as its the aftermath, and he carries with him a leg that won't fully heal to full movement and a whole lot of trauma around the sea. But he's re-learned happiness, so by the time the events in TSOF roll around he carries with him a whole lot of joy too. Even if its not immediately there in the story because he has just... that one more thing to fix.

It started with remembering what good food tastes like - that extra bit of zing that lingers on your tongue when you had just the right seasoning, and you remember what its like to feel. Insert giddy laugh.

His plants - even though he owns a farm and growth is year round, he's never lost that spark of excitement when he sees a new flower bud on his personal plants, especially the ones in his home that are THRIVING in conditions that are not their ideal. If his peace lily can re-flower, than so the hell can he.

Then he meets Isadora (Izzy/Scraps) Sheridan - the version of her name I use in the story, but it's Scraps from the show because I need them to be bffs - and she teaches him all she knows. He buys/adopts Mocha, and who knew he'd find love in chickensssss. He holds her little life in his hands, and the responsibility gives him a trajectory - he's EXCITED for.

His joy is deeper for the love of the little things that, in true Gordo, fashion he's turned into BIG things. He's very happy. And he's living with - not against, not in anger anymore for - the hand he's been dealt.

But if he falters - there's the people who love him - Team Estate, and Team Thunderbirds, and finally by the end of TSOF he feels they are part of making a difference in the world together.

He'll take in a rescuee and they'll have all these stories to tell about the amazing pilot that saved them from certain, you know, and Gordon will nod, hold out a chicken for them hold, and think those are my brothers!

[foofygoldfish]

most cursed ship i can think of: cyberpunk alice and vashti, breaking the villain scale.

alice would just be

but she'd probably drive vashti insane lmao

unless it was corpo!alice, then they'd be a corpo power couple

[belorage]

Happy birthday! I hope you have a wonderful year!

AHHHHH! Thank you, my dear! I would love nothing more! (And for the very same back at you; I hope the coming year is full of peace and inspiration!) 🤍

[thedeadthree]

For the OC bingo... how about all the Moon Knight lads? Steven, Marc, Jake?

ahhh thank u so much love! my boys my dears my loves that i care for a reasonable amount 🤍😌

character opinion bingo 🤍

[tsarisfanfiction]

Hello! For the fanfic guessing game, how about 'relax', 'open' and 'smile'?

Ooh, those are unusually happy words to feature on my blog... I'll see what I can find!

I'll see if I can grab a couple of examples for each from different fandoms, because I know I have a wide variety of fandoms in my followers, so here goes:

Relax

Snippet #1 (Riordanverse)

Ordinarily, Apollo would be slightly concerned at shutting demigods away, especially in somewhere as subtly hazardous as the Underworld, but in this case, where it was very much potentially life or death and life was rather ironically the option associated with the Underworld, it helped him relax a little.

Snippet #2 (Thunderbirds)

Maybe that was the secret to getting him to relax?  Hell knew Scott’s hair was usually guarded by hair gel and a warning glare if anyone dared try to mess with it.  Gordon filed that theory away for later experimentation.

Open

Snippet #1 (Riordanverse)

Luckily, Apollo seemed disinclined to ask this time, and instead shepherded them all towards the open, imposing doors.  “Let’s not keep Lord Zeus waiting any longer,” he insisted, and the demigods all hurried to obey, whether because they were worried about disobeying Apollo or upsetting Zeus, Lee wasn’t sure.  He was personally more worried about Zeus than his dad, but the way Luke was sending wary looks Apollo’s way, maybe not all of them had the same thoughts.

Snippet #2 (Thunderbirds)

“I can’t see.  Got a silhouette but not much more.  Give me your torch.”  He dropped the glowstick and kept his hand open for Virgil’s gear.  It landed in his hand and he carefully manoeuvred it down before turning it on.

Smile

Snippet #1 (Naruto)

Obito knew Shisui, remembered the kid with unusually curly hair and a smile as bright as the sun.  Shuriken flying as he helped him train, then sulking as his younger cousin bested him even though Obito was the shinobi and he was barely in the academy.

Snippet #2 (One Piece)

“Mellorine,” he trilled, offering his arm for her to take.  Her eyes rolled in a manner not too unlike Nami-swan’s, but she accepted it with a wry smile.  That smile reminded him of someone, but who, exactly, eluded him, and he didn’t dwell.  “Allow me to escort you to your freedom.”  This time the smile was wider.

Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

[valkblue]

@amistrio tagged me to answer these! (Thank you! 🥰)

Rules: Answer all the questions, then tag 9 people you want to get to know better!

Three ships:

Aragorn x Arwen

Bernard x Theresa (… 😭)

Jaime x Brienne (but not like in the show...)

First ship: Jack O'Neill x Sam Carter (Stargate SG1)

Last song I listened to: Beat It! (Michael Jackson)

Last movie watched: Jurassic Park 💕

Currently reading: Legacy of The Force + a lot of old/Legends comics (GIMME BASILISKssss!!!!)

Currently watching: Daredevil 🙃 (… but is a Jedi: Survivor playthrough on youtube counting as watching a show or film? Because that too.)

Currently consuming: … a tea?

Currently craving: Grilled salmon 😩 The whole beast, I mean… with nice fried rice and leak.

Tagging: …who wants! 👍

[shellibisshe]

Tangerine, for sure!

[skymaiden32]

Hello! How about 17, 8, and 29 for the AO3 ask game?

Hi! Tysm for the ask! 💙💚❤️💛🧡

17 - Your favourite character to write this year?

That’s a tough one, seeing as I’ve loved writing most characters this year, so I’m gonna pick out a favourite hero and villain. For hero characters, gonna be the squid boi Gorbo… ^^

Villains? Hands down The Hood. Love portraying how sinister he can be.

8 - Favourite pairing this year?

I really only wrote for two ships this year, and out of those two, it’s gonna be Jeff x Lucille since I focussed more on their relationship than Troy x Atlanta. The more Mariana Trench progresses, the more moments I’ll write for those two, but for now it’s the Tracy parents on top! XD

29 -Favourite line/passage you wrote this year?

Another tough one, but I’m gonna have to pick the stand off between Gordon and the Hood in Toxicity Chapter 8. Gordon’s desperate, Scott just wants his brother to forget about him and get out of danger, and The Hood is strangely calm about all of it…

The pure enjoyment I felt while writing this scene is why Gordon and Hoody were my favourite characters to write…

[tsarinatorment]

Grandma Tracy and Francois Lemaire for the TAG ask game?

Grandma Tracy: What’s something you enjoy doing, even if you don’t think you’re very good at it?

I'm the sort of person who struggles to stay engaged with stuff if I don't have at least some sort of skill in it, honestly. I can't actually think of anything I do for fun that I don't think I can do well, which is probably not the best way to face life but if I can't do it... well, it's frustrating so I leave it be and go back to things I can do for the satisfaction. The closest thing I can think of is art - I know I can draw, but I sure as hell can't draw a lot of things as well as I'd like. I haven't given up on that though.

Francois Lemaire: What’s the most wild thing you would do if you ever became a sudden and immediate billionaire with never depleting money?

Uhh... I mean the first thing I'd do with the money is pay off my student debt, then buy (or build) a house. After that, unlimited money just means I can commission all the awesome artists I see and can't afford, and fund a bunch of awesome research projects/PhDs.

Not sure anything there is particularly wild, though...

[refinedstorage]

thank you @amistrio for bringing to my attention that Thunderbirds are alive and kicking in 2023 <3

[dragonoffantasyandreality]

Happy New Year, everyone! <333

Hope you all staying happy, healthy, learning new things, spreading love and have great fun! :)

@uniwolfcorn @teapotteringabout @skymaiden32 @knyee @janetm74 @the-original-sineater @amistrio @thundergeek59 @riallasheng @katblu42 @mariashades @room-on-broom @yarol2075 @llamawrites @etrnlvoid