#oc:clancy

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Whumptober 2021 Day Nineteen

Magpie is pretty sure he’d been dying earlier. He’d definitely felt like he was dying, and there had been a lot of blood, and when he’d finally passed out he remembers having thought well, this is it.

Now, though, he is notably not dead.

He’s not exactly upset about not being dead, of course. He doesn’t want to be dead. Not being dead, under most circumstances, is the most favourable outcome.

However. Under this particular circumstance, he’s not entirely sure it’s a good thing.

He does his best to sit up, looking around the room. It’s dark, but his eyes adjust quickly. He’s not sure where he is, but there’s a bed and a window, the curtains pulled tightly closed. No sign of Clancy, but Magpie’s sure he’ll be back soon.

And then he’s going to have to explain why the hell Magpie isn’t dead.

Magpie’s not sure how long it is before the door finally creaks open and Clancy’s standing there, coat pulled close around himself.

He looks up, and their eyes meet.

“You’re awake,” Clancy says, and shrugs his coat off, hanging it over the back of the door and rushing over to kneel beside the bed.

“I am,” Magpie says, crossing his arms as Clancy tries to take his hand. “Why?”

“What do you mean?”

Magpie catches his eye, and he looks away. “You know what I mean. I should be dead.”

“Magpie,” Clancy says, pleading.

This is only confirmation of what Magpie already knew.

“I should be dead,” he says, again. They’ve talked about this before, Clancy knew he wanted to be allowed to die when it came to it. Even if it had happened earlier than he’d hoped.

“I’m sorry,” Clancy says, shaking his head. “I’m sorry. But I couldn’t lose you. I…”

“Shut up,” Magpie says, voice shaking. He’s walking a thin line between scared and angry, and he doesn’t need excuses. “Shut up. You knew I never wanted this.”

“You’d rather I let you die?”

“Yes!”

They’d talked about it. Extensively. Clancy had pleaded with him to let him turn him, saying I can’t lose you, please, Magpie, and Magpie had told him no over and over. No. I’m happy being human. I’m happy dying one day.

True, he hadn’t thought one day would be before he hit thirty, but he would still rather be dead than undead.

“I couldn’t,” Clancy says, quiet. “I know … and I’m sorry, but I couldn’t.”

“You could,” Magpie tells him. “You promised.”

“I love you.”

Magpie shakes his head. “If you loved me, you’d have done as I asked.”

Clancy flinches a little, at that. “Mags, you don’t…”

“I don’t what.”

“You don’t understand.”

“Then explain to me,” Magpie says coldly. “Explain why you couldn’t have respected my wishes.”

Clancy sighs, pulling away from the edge of the bed. “I’ve lost a lot of people,” he says, quietly. “I couldn’t lose you too.”

“You knew you’d lose me eventually.”

“I know. And I could have prepared myself. But … I’m not ready now. I love you.”

“You don’t love me,” Magpie tells him. “You only love yourself!”

Clancy flinches again. “That’s not true.”

“You told me I had a choice! You promised you’d respect that!”

“I would have. But I was panicking!”

“You told me I had a choice.”

Clancy gets a look in his eye that, when they’d first met, would probably have ended with Magpie beaten into unconsciousness. Now he just pulls himself to his feet and turns his back to Magpie, staring at the closed curtains. “I never had a choice.”

Fuck you, Magpie thinks, and doesn’t say. He’s still a little nervous of pushing his luck, despite how much Clancy has promised he will never, ever raise a hand to him.

Incidentally he also promised never to turn Magpie without his permission, and yet here they are.

“So you took mine as well?” he says, finally. It’s quiet. This battle was over before it even started, because Clancy can’t exactly undo what he’s done (except perhaps by killing him, and Magpie doesn’t think either of them could go through with that), but he isn’t even sorry.

He thinks he did the right thing. As usual.

“I didn’t mean to,” Clancy says. “I just couldn’t lose you.”

“And you don’t even care about what I wanted.”

“I’m sorry.”

“You’re not.”

Clancy sighs. “I’m not sorry you’re alive.”

Magpie doesn’t know how to explain to him that’s not what he’s upset about. He likes being alive, even if this isn’t quite true life, and he didn’t want to die. But Clancy betrayed his trust, and Magpie never trusts easily.

“I trusted you,” he says, shrinking in on himself.

“I saved your life.”

“You promised you wouldn’t!”

His voice is wobbling a little, and he feels as though he’s going to cry. He hates, it, but there’s nothing he can do. At least Clancy isn’t looking at him.

But he can’t even have that, because Clancy turns and comes to stand by the bed.

“Mags,” he says, soft and sweet, and sits on the edge of the bed. “I didn’t mean to betray your trust.”

This time when he reaches out to take Magpie’s hand Magpie doesn’t try to stop him. Just lets Clancy link their fingers together, lift his hand to press his lips against his fingers.

“I love you,” he says, and Magpie looks away, trying to fight the tears. He’s upset, and angry still, but the urge to let Clancy comfort him is winning out over the urge to tell him to fuck off and die.

“I’m still mad at you,” he says, and Clancy sighs.

“I know.”

He gets into bed anyway, and Magpie curls up against him.

“We’ll work it out,” Clancy promises, and Magpie nods, quiet.

They’ll work it out. They’ll have to.

[energons]

fuck it !!!!!! mushroom peopel

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Character Intro!

[ID: A character from this picrew. He’s a man with light brown skin, brown hair and red eyes, looking straight ahead with a vaguely concerned expression. He’s wearing a high-necked white button down and black waistcoat with gold trim, and he has gold earrings. The background is black with a silver cresent moon. There is a gold icon shaped like a d20 that says ‘baydews’ in the bottom left hand corner. end ID]

This is Clancy! It’s his birthday! I figured this is as good a time as any for a character introduction!

-hes a vampire -like two thousand years old -an utter bastard -no thats not true hes nice actually -nice enough that hes managed to end up with two husbands -(theyre also vampires) -(vampire husbands :) -hes honestly a very minor character -i just love him way too much -he was evil for a while but he got better -and now he mostly just feels guilty about things that arent his fault -(and some things that ARE his fault) -he’s a half vampire -which means he can eat human food -it’s not awfully good for him but it wont make him sick and he can just about live off it -and does sometimes when he gets random bouts of feeling bad about killing people -for someone who claims to dislike children he’s a very good parent

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thinking about them (vampire husbands)

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8gp incorrect quotes

yeh, i found that generator and went ham

Bonus triplets content:

ID under the cut

[ID: eleven incorrect quotes from ScatterPatter’s incorrect quotes generator.

One: Your prompt: Freddie: Violence isn’t the answer. Alexei: You’re right. Freddie: *sighs in relief* Alexei: Violence is the question. Freddie: What? Alexei, bolting away: And the answer is yes. Freddie, running after them: NO-

Two: Your prompt: Freddie: Name a more iconic duo than my crippling fear of abandonment and my anxiety. I’ll wait. Alexei: You and me!!! Freddie, tearing up: Okay.

Three: Your prompt: Freddie: Treat spiders the way you want to be treated. Alexei: Killed without hesitation. Freddie: No.

Four: Your prompt: Mercy: We need a distraction. Serin: Is anyone here good at jumping up and down and making weird noises? Theo, whispering: My time has come.

Five: Your prompt: Mercy: In my defence, I was left unsupervised. Serin: Wasn’t Theo with you? Theo: In my defence, I was also left unsupervised.

Six: Your prompt: Clancy: Are you the big spoon or the little spoon? Magpie: I’m a knife. Jasper, from across the room: They’re the little spoon.

Seven: Your prompt: Clancy: If you had to choose between Magpie and all the money I have in my wallet, which would you choose? Jasper: That depends, how much money are we talking about? Magpie: Jasper! Clancy: 63 cents. Jasper: I’ll take the money. Magpie: Jasper!!!

Eight: Your prompt: Gis: Sorry it took me so long to bail you out of jail. Leo: No, it’s my fault, I shouldn’t have used my one phone call to prank call the police.

Nine: Your prompt: Gis: *Accidentally hits Leo in the face* Gis: *Trying to decide between saying ‘I’m fucking sorry’ and ‘Are you okay’* Gis: ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY?! Leo: What’s wrong with you?!

Ten: Your prompt: Cas: In your opinion, what’s the height of stupidity? Lux: *Turning to Gem* How tall are you?

Eleven: Your prompt: Cas: Let me show you a picture from last night that really upset me. Lux: Okay, but in my defence, Gem bet me 50 cents I couldn’t drink all of that shampoo. Cas: That’s not what I wanted to- you drank SHAMPOO?!

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