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natashxromanovf · 4 years ago

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Injuries

Pairing: Sirius Black× fem! reader

Warnings: swearing, vomiting, alcohol, injuries

Word count: 2k

A/N: I’m kinda proud of this one. I can definitely see the progress. I hope you like it! I started writing it 2 weeks ago, but lost motivation and now I’m here finishing it today. Also @voidmalfoy wanted to be tagged in here. Thank you for deciding to read it.

You and Sirius were best friends since the second year. You have never imagined him as something else. Something more.

Your dorm was very bright from the sun shining through the windows. You could feel the warmth on your body. It was a perfect afternoon.

“Hey Y/N.”

“Hello, Marlene”

“I need to ask you something”

“Sure”

“What’s going on with you and Sirius?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, are you two a couple or something?”

“What?” the question caught you off guard. “No. You know we are not.”

“Babe, I have seen the way you’re looking at him. You look like your heart is about to melt into your hands.”

“What, no-” and then it hit. The realization that you are, indeed, in love with your best friend. it didn’t happen all of a sudden, no. The feelings were built through the years. It started with a little crush, you developed in fifth year. You pushed it at the back of your mind, convincing yourself it’ll go away. But it didn’t. It just kept growing and growing, until it was too big for you to deny it anymore.

“Fuck” you sighed “No, no, no this is not happening! It can’t be happening. I can’t. He doesn’t feel the same I’m just going to end up heartbroken.” a million thoughts were running through your head. But the loudest and strongest one was He doesn’t feel the same. How am I gonna tell him?

You decided not to worry about it. Not tonight. Tonight is time for fun. The marauders planed one hell of a good party (Sirius was in charge of the drinks, Remus planned the whole thing and James and Peter made sure that teachers won’t hear a thing) and there’s no way you are gonna ruin yourself the night. Tonight is time for drinking and celebrating Gryffindor's win in the match against Ravenclaw.

When you got there the common room was already pretty full. Your eyes started to search for Sirius before you even realized it. And there he was, flirting with a girl as always. The new feeling hit you. You immediately knew what it was. It felt like a stab in the chest, like someone was trying to tear your heart out of your chest. No, don’t you thought. What did I promise myself? You got lost in your thoughts before someone tapped your shoulder.

“Hey Y/N/N.”

“Oh, hey Lily.”

She looked at Sirius and then at your face. “Marls told me” she sighed.

“Oh news travels fast around here.” you rolled your eyes.

“Let’s go somewhere else. Drinks!”

Soon all of your friends joined. You danced, drank, you had fun. Maybe a little too much. You tripped and fell, but somebody caught you.

“Wow, you okay, love?”

Sirius.

“Yeah, I’m all good, Siri” you giggled. Trying to steady yourself, you once again lost balance but there were hands quickly to wrap around your waist.

“Okay, I think you had enough.”

What? No. I didn’t know you were such a party killer.”

“Believe me, I’m not, but I think you should go up.”

“Whatever.” He escorted you.

“Thank-” you couldn’t even finish the sentence. As soon as you came up you ran straight to the bathroom. You don’t tolerate alcohol very well. You knew that. You started throwing up and someone's hands grabbed your hair.

“See. Told you.” joked Sirius but there was a hint of worry in his voice.

“I’m okay. Thank you.” you smiled. “But I think I’m gonna stay here for a little bit. I don’t think it’s over yet.”

“Then I’m staying too.” he sounded pretty sober, looking at a fact he drank nearly as much as you.

“No, you don’t have to. Go, have some more fun.”

“It’s okay.”

“You sure?” you raised your eyebrows.

“Yes.”

Soon your urge to puke went away so you fell asleep.

The morning came quicker than you wanted. Your head was pounding and you felt sick. What you didn’t expect was to wake up to the black-haired boy sleeping on the floor beside your bed. You couldn’t help yourself but stare at the beautiful being sleeping in front of you.

No worries, no school, no quiddi- “Quidditch!!” you shouted “Sirius wake up! Wake up, idiot!” you screamed, throwing a pillow in his face.

“What?!”

“Quidditch, Sirius, quidditch”

He looked at you confused.

“Practice, James saying it was important, don’t you remember??”

“Oh, shit!”

“YES! We have exactly five minutes to get ready. Oh God, my head! Do you have any painkillers?

“Yes, in my dorm. We get ready and then meet me down in five?"

“Yes, now go!”

As fast as you could, you got ready, took your broom, and ran down the stairs. Sirius was already waiting for you with a water bottle and three pain killers. “Thanks.”

“No worries, now run.”

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“Where have you been!?! You’re late!”

“I know, I’m so sorry James”

“Do you even have a good excuse? I told you this training is very important!”

“Does hangover count?” half-joked, half asked Sirius.

“What? Oh, the party. No, it doesn’t count! And where even were you, you didn’t come back to our dorm last night.”

The boy looked at you and then started speaking “In girls’ dorm.”

“What were you- You know what I don’t wanna know, just get ready quick!”

You quickly swallowed the medications, saddled the broom, and pushed yourself from the ground.

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The practice was quite enjoyable. The fresh air helped with your headache. Or was it just the medications, you didn’t know. The ending of the practice was approaching when James called you all down for a quick word.

“So, many of you are probably wondering why the hell was this training so important. No, it wasn’t just because I wanted to have it, it was also because professor Mcgonagall informed me, that Hufflepuff’s seeker broke her arm, so they can’t play in their game against Slytherin next week. Which means that we have to play instead of them.

You enjoyed playing quidditch. Tho matches against Slytherin were never fun. It always ended with at least half of the team in the hospital wing. By any chance, that half of the team often included you. The raven-haired boy, who stood next to you, bumped your shoulder.

“Excited for the game, y/l/n”

“I don’t know, these matches always end the same.”

“With injuries and annoyed Madam Pomfrey.” you two said in sync. The laughter filled your lungs, echoing through the changing room.

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The week went through pretty boring yet normal. Lessons, tons of homework, intense practices, a couple of pranks, and fun evenings with friends. Saturday came again quickly and nerves settled into your body. You were tense, anyone could see that from a mile away. You tried to eat, but your stomach refused.

“Come on darling, relax.” said Sirius massaging your shoulders and neck.

“I don’t even know why I’m so stressed, it’s just a normal game. But I have a feeling something will go terribly wrong!”

“Hey, hey, look at me” whisper- yelled Sirius. “Everything is going to be okay. You’ll do good, I’ll do good, James’ll do good.” staring at those beautiful grey eyes of his, you calmed. They took your worries away and your lips formed a gentle smile. His expression soon mirrored yours, looking away from you.

“Thank you so much Pads, I have no idea how you do it but it works. You’re the only person that can calm me.” He would probably throw some flirty remark back if James hadn’t cut him off.

“Attention, attention my dear teammates. The match will take place at 9.30 so we have exactly 30 minutes-”

“29″

“29 minutes, thank you, Williams, to get ready. So lift your ass up, take your brooms and lets go to changing rooms!” James yelled, clearly determined to win today's game. He can be sweet and nice but when it comes to quidditch there is no joke.

When you changed into quidditch ropes the team went through all your tactics again. Soon enough you heard Madam Hooch's whistle that announced the game is gonna begin. Two captains shook hands, roughly than they should.

The game was pretty tight Gryffindor only leading by 10 points. If James doesn't catch the snitch soon you're all screwed.

"Williams throwing a quaffle to y/n, y/n passing it to Andrews and Andrews right back to y/n... And y/n scores!! The result is now 180 for Gryffindor and 160 for Slytherin." Right as the commentator announced your goal you saw James diving after something very small, something golden... a snitch! "And Potter caught the snitch, Gryffindor wins!!" Loud cheering was heard from all directions. Cheering people in scarlet and gold, some Gryffindors some even Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs.

Right as you were about to land someone knocked you from your broom. As you started falling you saw a familiar face behind you. You didn't give it much a thought tho as blackness took over all your senses.

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The moment you woke up you felt a pair of familiar hands around your own. Your head was pounding, your vision was blurry and you had to blink a couple more times than normal. You tried to sit up but your body strongly disagreed.

"Siri? What happened?" the black-haired boy quickly looked up and a smile formed on his face.

"You're awake, thank god." he said with such a caring voice and your stomach immediately started doing flips. "You were diving when somebody knocked you off your broom. Nobody saw who it was tho." as the memories started forming themselves in your mind you remembered who you saw. It was Goyle.

"I know who it was. But you have to promise me you won't do anything stupid!" Sirius' face darkened. Hesitatingly he said "I promise. Now please tell me."

"It was Goyle." Goyle has always been short-tempered. He probably couldn't take the Slytherin's loss so he took his anger out on you.

"I'm gonna kill him! That son of a bitch. I knew it, I knew it!!"

"Sirius Black! You promised you won't do anything stupid. Now please calm down. Nothing bad happened."

"Nothing bad happened?! Y/n you're in a hospital wing!"

"Yea, but I'm okay." That was obviously a lie. Every part of your body hurts. With every move, every word, something hurts. As you could saw, Sirius didn't buy it but decided to play along anyway.

"Oh, you're okay? Fine, then please sit up for me."

Again you tried but couldn't do it. "I can't."

"Oh, I know you can't." a smirk appeared on his face but was soon replaced with a worried expression. "You fell from 8 meters, you can't be okay."

"You know me too well, it's creepy really. You know more about me than I do myself." he laughed, leaving you no other choice than to join him.

"Please don't make me laugh, it hurts." you said through chuckles and pain.

Soon enough, you both calmed down and a comforting silence fell over you two. That was until Sirius interrupted "You got me worried there, you know."

"I'm sorry."

"It wasn't your fault what in the world are you sorry for, love?"

"Don't know. For destroying a happy feeling after our win?"

"You didn't. I'm just happy you'll be okay." he smiled. Overwhelmed with emotions you said something you didn't intend to. "I love you."

"I love you too."

"No Sirius, I'm in love with you." no stopping now, you thought. He was caught by surprise, hundreds of thoughts running through his mind. You miss judged the silence, looking away with glassy eyes. He broke out of his thoughts by the sight of you almost crying.

"I- I'm in love with you too."

"What?" you have to hear him say it again. Was this just your head playing with you? You waited so long for these words to come out of his mouth, you didn't know if they were real.

"I love you too." he said right before pressing his lips against yours. It didn't take you long to melt into the kiss. Your lips felt like they were made for each other.

Like you two were made for each other.

#sirius black imagine #sirius black × reader #sirius black

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consumedkings-archive · 4 years ago

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Ultimate OTP Meme

i’m doing this because @baeogorath told me they would sue me for emotional damages if i did so take some cora/elliot content (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿) softness under the cut and also red i hope u rue the day u told me not to do something

General

How long will they last? ○ until the bleak, cold, black end, because elliot is a Lifetime Bitch

How quickly did/will they fall in love? ○ immediately upon laying eyes on each other beating the shit out of people

How was their first kiss? ○ shy, but cute. they’re soft only for each other and the chemistry was impeccable

Wedding

Who proposed? ○ elliot; her love language is gift-giving and with her bad experience with marriage, the ULTIMATE devotion and gift to give is marriage.

Who is the best man/men? ○ joey hudson for sure

Who is the bride’s maid(s)? ○ as red mentioned before, sharky would be furious if he wasn’t the maid of honor so of course elliot would uphold that

Who did the most planning? ○ elliot; cora would spent .000005 seconds about to say how she doesn’t want to do it and elliot would IMMEDIATELY take full reign

Who stressed the most? ○ i’m going to say cora just based off of red’s prev. answer--elliot doesn’t stress once she’s there and cora gets cold feet : ‘ )

How fancy was the ceremony? Back of a pickup truck | 2 | 3 | 4 | Normal Church Wedding | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Kate and William wish they were this big. scarlet honeysett 1.) supports the marriage and 2.) would never let her daughter have anything less than a near-immaculate wedding, but elliot would try and reign her in.

Who was specifically not invited to the wedding? ○ i want to say john but i know that elliot and cora would send him an invite out of pure, unadulterated cruelty. so probably only joseph.

Sex

Who is on top? ○ definitely cora. elliot feels comfy enough around her to let go of some of that control.

Who is the one to instigate things? ○ probably elliot; she’s pretty touchy-feely when she’s happy

How healthy is their sex life? Barely touch themselves let alone each other | 2 | 3 | 4 | Once a couple weeks, nothing overboard | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | They are humping each other on the couch right now don’t @ me red you know it’s the truth

How kinky are they? Straight missionary with the lights off | 2 | 3 | 4 | Might try some butt stuff and toys | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Don’t go into the sex dungeon without a horse’s head you bet your ass that since elliot likes cora being in control it happens

How long do they normally last? ○ elliot likes to take her time; she doesn’t like to rush through things, whereas cora is a very busy, so it’s somewhere in-between. elliot probably gets her to slow it down a little more often than not when she’s feeling particularly needy.

Do they make sure each person gets an equal amount of orgasms? ○ bruh you know elliot ain’t out here keeping track, as long as they’re both happy

How rough are they in bed? Softer than a butterfly on the back of a bunny | 2 | 3 | 4 | The bed’s shaking and squeaking every time | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Their dirty talk is so vulgar it’d make Dwayne Johnson blush. Also, the wall’s so weak it could collapse the next time they do it. elliot is a sucker for pain

How much cuddling/snuggling do they do? No touching after sex | 2 | 3 | 4 | A little spooning at night, or on the couch, but not in public | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | They snuggle and kiss more often than a teen couple on their fifth date to a pillow factory. with cora, elliot loves softer moments; being held etc, the number would probably be higher if cora wasn’t so resistant to being vulnerable

Children

How many children will they have naturally? ○ MANY dog children, at least one horse, if cora lets her elliot would have a whole gaggle of chickens

How many children will they adopt? ○ elliot is absolutely terrified of having kids because her own mother was such a failure, so like??? how would she know how to be a mom. but she’d do it if cora asked, maybe like just one.

Who gets stuck with the most diapers? ○ they’re pretty equal on sharing child duties.

Who is the stricter parent? ○ probably cora; elliot is a flower-child at heart and likes to be the cool, fun parent, whereas cora provides the structure.

Who stops the kid(s) from doing dangerous stunts after school? ○ both of them, but mostly cora. elliot cannot be allowed to participate in truth or dare because she has no regard for her own safety, but she’s a worrying parent.

Who remembers to pack the lunch(es)? ○ elliot!

Who is the more loved parent? ○ elliot will say both of them, but she’s so soft and prone to hugs/arts and crafts projects that it might be her, though it’s VERY close.

Who is more likely to attend the PTA meetings? ○ both of them. elliot is hugely intense about PTA--not necessarily being a participant in events, but making sure her kids are getting a fair shake. she’s easily tiger mom and cora has probably had to intervene in elliot popping off on another parent more than once.

Who cried the most at graduation? ○ definitely el; she’s v v soft.

Who is more likely to bail the child(ren) out of trouble with the law? ○ again, el. cora’s more of a hardass than she is and she’s always thinking back on the days SHE used to get in trouble, so she likes to give them some wiggle room.

Cooking

Who does the most cooking? ○ el, but she shouldn’t be.

Who is the most picky in their food choice? ○ elliot. she’s weird about her food, cora will eat just about anything.

Who does the grocery shopping? ○ agaaaaaain elliot. cora would live entirely off of the green planet earth if she had it her way, but elliot needs things to make lemon bars and big batches of soup.

How often do they bake desserts? ○ the one good thing el’s mom ever did for her was give her the lemon bars recipe, so frequently. and baking is a de-stresser for elliot.

Are they more of a meat lover or a salad eater? ○ cora is a big meat eater, elliot is definitely more of a salad eater. this means every meal is both things and that whatever one doesn’t eat, the other will finish off.

Who is more likely to surprise the other(s) with an anniversary dinner? ○ probably cora; elliot is a bit scatter-brained when it comes to anniversaries and she doesn’t think very highly of them anyway and no matter what it is, elliot adores it.

Who is more likely to suggest going out? ○ cora. el is a big homebody and doesn’t like going out if she can help it.

Who is more likely to burn the house down accidentally while cooking? ○ cora, although elliot is not far behind.

Chores

Who cleans the room? ○ el; she’s a big tidier. consistently, throughout the day, definitely not a compulsion

Who is really against chores? ○ cora, which is fine because elliot has a specific place she likes everything to be anyway.

Who cleans up after the pets? ○ elliot.

Who is more likely to sweep everything under the rug? ○ cora.

Who stresses the most when guests are coming over? ○ cora, because she’s so worried about get picked apart by guests. elliot is used to it thanks to her mom, so she always gives cora a big pep talk prior.

Who found a dollar between the couch cushions while cleaning? ○ cora. the couch is the one place elliot doesn’t like to go.

Misc.

Who takes the longer showers/baths? ○ cora, but elliot will join her as often as she can to maximize hot water.

Who takes the dog out for a walk? ○ elliot, like clockwork, because she can’t stand the dogs spending all day with nervous/frantic dog energy.

How often do they decorate the room/house for the holidays? ○ cora likes to decorate fervently, elliot likes to neurotically take them down.

What are their goals for the relationship? ○ elliot is a big romance softie; she saw cora bash a man’s face in and it was true love, and she feels safe with cora which she doesn’t feel that way hardly ever. being stuck in constant fight or flight means cora gives her a sense of stability and stops her from second-guessing herself. i think cora probably just likes that elliot is so soft and also so willing to beat the shit out of someone for her.

Who is most likely to sleep till noon? ○ cora. elliot wakes up at 7 at the latest.

Who plays the most pranks? ○ if any, probably cora; elliot is not a prankster and her idea of a joke is surprising her with a kiss or something.

#ch: cora stammos #ch: elliot honeysett #i would die for this crackship and john seed can pry these girls from my cold dead hands #we need a ship name.....#coriot?#baeogorath #I HOPE UR HAPPY NOW #i hope ur happy with what u have done #fc5 ocs

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remcase · 6 years ago

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Chapter 19

Across our day-to-day and ordinary distances we speak plainly. We hear each other clearly. And yet I want to return to you

-Eavan Boland

The end of the school break came almost as quickly as its beginning, the hours whittled away in good humour, good company, and the creation of good memories. Every day William and Noah threw themselves into the daily family life, but each night they saved wholly for themselves, to close the distance that they had been forced to maintain during the day. William knew it would be hard to go back to school, to be forced to separate for far longer hours and without those night to comfort him, but time was cruelly fast, and before he knew it he was placing his suitcase into the rear of Arthur’s car as his mother hugged Noah, trying to hide the sheen in her eyes.

“It was so nice having you boys here for the whole holiday! After graduation you should come visit us here, Noah, before you go to college. We’d be so happy to have you here and you’re just such a nice boy to have stay and-”

William chuckled under his breath and tuned his mother out, looking down at Chunk who was winding himself around Noah’s ankles, looking up at him with big, hopeful eyes. Chunk had taken an intense liking to Noah, and even he seemed to be begging him not to go. William echoed the feeling.

“Mom!” Arthur laughed, lounging against the car, “Would you let him go?! You’re going to scare him away for good.”

“Oh, shush, Art.” Holy scolded, then took Noah’s face in her hands maternally. “Promise me you’ll come back.”

“If Will wants me to.” Noah grinned, looking back over at his boyfriend. William just grinned, shutting the boot and joining his side, brushing his hand subtly off his. “I’m sure I can pencil you in some time over summer.”

“You can bring Evan and the girls too. We can have a backyard cookout.” Holly said enthusiastically, “John can pick up some nice things from-”

“They haven’t even left yet, Holl.” John said firmly, pulling William into a brief but tight hug, kissing his temple. “There’s no need to plan for it already.”

“But John-”

“Empty nest syndrome.” John grumbled, but there was a warm sparkle in his eyes and William knew that his father loved that maternal, protective, loving side of his mother. Shaking his head, he held a hand out to Noah, smiling warmly. “It was very nice to have you out here for the holidays, son. You’re welcome back anytime.”

“Thank you. Really.”

“Oh, I don’t want you both to go back.” Holly said, pulling William and Noah into one more hug each. “Have a nice time back in school, ok boys? Be good.”

“You know I always am, Mom.” William said, but even he was reluctant to get into the car, hoping to draw out his fleeting time at home as much as possible. He didn’t have a choice, however, when Arthur slapped the roof of his car enthusiastically, flicking down his sunglasses. “Ok, boys! Time to go, we’re burning daylight!”

After promising his mother he would call often, William finally let himself be ushered into the waiting car, and within minutes they were back on the road, heading back to the final term of school, and even though Noah took William’s hand surreptitiously on the back seat and smiled, William couldn’t fight the sick wave of foreboding that accosted him. Looking into his boyfriend’s eyes he wondered if things would really be ok.

School began with little ceremony, only an enthusiastic evening spent in his dorm room with Evan, Noah, Brittney, and Grace as they exchanged their news and stories from their time apart. Grace had spent the holidays painting with her grandmother in her mountainside home, while Evan had done his best to impress Brittney’s parents and try not to get murdered by her older brothers. Much to everyone’s surprise, he had succeeded and had even won himself another invitation to come back when school ended.

The words ‘when school is over’ however, cast a shadow on their good humour and they all fell quiet, lapsing into their own thoughts. William broke the silence. “You’re all invited to come to mine during the summer. My Mom probably has it planned by now, anyway.”

“Sounds good to me!” Evan chirped, patting his stomach. “I miss your Mom. And her cookies. Little buddy did you try her cookies?”

“Yes.”

“Lucky little bitch.”

“Well,” Noah amended, shooting William a look mischievous enough that only he caught the double meaning, “I had them whenever Will wasn’t being a pain in my ass.”

The others just chuckled lightly, unaware of the joke, and William bit back his grin, trying to look reasonably amused. “Shut up. You had a great time.”

“I did. We should do it again soon.” Noah said, raising his eyebrows a fraction and William just huffed a laugh, quickly changing the subject before the girls caught on to the hidden undercurrent to their conversation.

Time passed, and, as he had feared, William struggled with the transition from the holiday time he had spent with Noah to school hours once more. A new sort of ache had taken up residence in his chest, a sort of panging loneliness that was only exacerbated by the long hours they spent apart, and the empty space beside William in his bed each night that tormented him. He knew that nobody got to spend the night with their boyfriend or girlfriend, but his and Noah’s situation was made worse by the polite distance he was forced to keep between them during the day. It was torture, and he found himself growing wistful and longing, the tiny snatches of affection they squeezed in throughout the day never enough to satisfy him, now that he had had a taste of Noah’s whole, unadulterated attention.

Noah seemed to share his feelings, the dark circles beneath his eyes that William had hoped they had seen the last of returning with a vengeance. They were always the first place he kissed when he and Noah were alone, but it wasn’t enough to make them disappear. He knew what he would have to do, but didn’t know how he would do it.

With the rapidly approaching mental deadline he had set to come out to his family and friends in place, during the summer just before college, William found himself preoccupied with growing fears, fears for his own physical and mental wellbeing as well as Noah’s. Fears that didn’t leave him, even in the aftermath of their intimacy.

Lying panting after the quickest sex they’d had so far, William resented the fact that he had to tear his eyes away from his boyfriend who still sat atop him coming down from his high to check that the desk chair barring the door shut hadn’t moved, and the irritation mingled unpleasantly with his lingering pleasure. He hated that he was still afraid that somebody could intrude, and hated himself more that he still afraid of what could happen if somebody who wouldn’t accept them guessed what they had just done.

“Not that I don’t enjoy it hot and fast,” Noah muttered, grabbing the paper towels that William had placed to the side and beginning to mop up the mess on their stomachs, “But this way without the build-up is a bit more painful for me afterwards.” As if to accentuate his point he cringed in pain as he leaned up high onto his knees to let William pull out from him and dispose of the condom. “Twinges.”

“I’m sorry.” William replied regretfully, helping him clean up quickly so that they could relax and lie together for a bit before somebody came looking for them. “Maybe next time we can just do something else? We don’t have to go the whole way.”

Noah settled against his chest, and the way William’s arms fit around him was so normal and natural. “But I want to. I want to be close to you like this.”

“I know baby, I know.”

For a while they simply stayed like that, wrapped in each other’s arms, William trailing his fingers lazily across Noah’s bare skin and Noah nuzzling into his neck, taking deep, even breaths. But, when Noah’s phone buzzed loudly from the bedside table William was forced to let him go so he could sit up and look at the screen.

Incoming call: Dad.

Noah hit ignore and settled back down, closing his eyes and acting as if the phone call hadn’t happened at all. Ignore it, Will. Ignore it. It’s none of your business. “Hey, Noah?”

“Yeah?”

“Why did you ignore the phone call?”

“Would you rather I take a private phone call with my Dad ten minutes after having sex with you?”

Scarlet cheeked, William bit his lip. “Of course. Obviously. Sorry, I don’t know why I read so much into that.”

Noah was quiet again, but this time it was strained and uncomfortable. Finally he looked up at William again. “He wants to talk to me.”

“About?”

“He just always does. Especially now. He thinks I need him.”

“Don’t you?”

Noah said nothing so William stroked his back comfortingly, kissing his temple. “I think you’re doing just fine on your own, baby, but that doesn’t mean you should totally burn the bridge, you know? What does your Mom think?”

“She would be very mad if she found out I ignored another one of his calls.”

“Well then. Save yourself the lecture and the trouble. Call your Dad back and pretend you missed it by accident so your Mom doesn’t find out you ignored it on purpose. Even if you don’t stay on the phone for long maybe just do enough to keep your relationship civil and your Mom happy.”

“You don’t know anything about our relationship, Will.”

“I know. But I know you don’t like fighting with him.”

“It’s not fighting it’s just…I don’t want to talk to him. He always wants to talk about things and we should just leave the past in the past, you know?” Noah sat up then, angry blotches of colour on his cheeks and he grabbed his underwear, tugging it on jerkily. He didn’t look at William. “If he wanted to fix things, if he wanted to show that he loved me he wouldn’t have sent me here! He wouldn’t have sent me away!”

The shocked hush that followed Noah’s heated admission seemed to ring with the absence of his voice and William lay in the bed, unsure of what to do or say. “Noah…”

“Don’t, Will.” Noah replied woodenly, grabbing his other clothes and pulling them on, then passing William his. He took the hint and slowly started to get dressed, watching Noah out of the corner of his eye all the while. The other boy was small and hunched over and angry, glaring at the phone as if it had personally offended him. When William was finally dressed Noah finally sighed, rubbing his face. “I don’t regret coming here. It was a good decision. I met you, after all.”

“You don’t have to say that-”

“I do.”

“Noah-”

“I’m sorry.” Noah cut him off, taking the phone and shoving it into his pocket, as if desperate to remove it from his sight. “Will, can you go?”

Hurt, William stared at him. “If you’re mad at me-”

“I’m not mad.” Noah promised softly. “I just have some things on my mind. A lot of things are going on. Bad time for me. Can you just go?”

“I don’t want to go. I don’t want to leave things like this, I won’t be able to sleep.” The thought of going to his lonely bed while nursing the guilt and concern he felt like a death sentence and Noah recognised this, stepping close to give William a brief but tight hug. “I love you, gorgeous. Don’t worry about me.”

“As if I couldn’t.”

Noah just huffed a slightly sardonic laugh and together they walked to his door, removing the chair that blocked it. “Don’t worry, Will. You won’t have to worry about it for much longer.”

William perked. “You’re going to talk to him?”

“Yeah. Probably should.” Noah said, staring at the grain of the wooden door. “I’ll meet you for dinner tonight, yeah? I’ll meet you in the dining hall.”

“Ok.” William agreed and left, though his instincts screamed at him to go back, to force Noah to let him stay.

That evening at dinner time Noah joined William at his table with a normal, easy-going grin and a pat on his leg beneath the table, his other hand already reaching to steal a strawberry from the fruit bowl William had chosen for dessert. He was so normal that William was caught off guard and just watched in cautious silence as Noah popped the strawberry into his mouth and smiled. “What?”

He didn’t want to bring up the afternoon. If Noah had forgotten about it, he thought he should too. Besides, I’ve already pried too much today. I’ll push him away. “It’s nothing.” William said, forcing a smile. “Nothing.”

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thebibliomancer · 7 years ago

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Essential Avengers: Avengers #160: ... The Trial!

June, 1977

So here we are once again. Some doofus in a mask who once fell on his own scythe versus the Avengers and also he beats the Avengers. That must sting.

Actually, I was prepared to dislike this issue because Grim Reaper and because the kind of overused trial plot but actually hey, stay tuned. Despite this post lacking any dials whatsoever.

So last time: Wonder Man came back to life and its a mystery and Vision has been feeling the robo-angsts about it. The Avengers recently got their asses kicked by a statue and a dick named Graviton and were played for fool chumps by Attuma and Doom. And also Vision and Wonder Man threw down because punching is easier than talking.

They’ve had a bad time of it, is what I’m basically saying.

This time: some Avengers take off early to avoid the menacing, glinting scythe that somehow got through the Avengers’ lackluster security.

Maybe Gyrich has a point in the future, even if he is an incredible dick about it.

But to be serious: Iron Man is taking Whizzer back to the hospital. I was about to comment on how his plot line just got dropped but Shooter at least remembers to tie it up loosely.

Whizzer complains that they didn’t call him to help with Graviton, Iron Man rebuts that Dude You Have A Heart Condition, thinks himself a secret hypocrite for fighting so much crime with a heart condition.

Yellowjacket and Wasp head back to Pym’s lab because Hank wants to specifically improve Yellowjacket’s powers. Doesn’t even consider improving Wasp’s powers though.

Which is interesting, sorta. I’ve been omitting the letters in the back when they do show up because I’m not sure how interesting ‘hey look at what this fan said decades ago’ is. I’m sure there is interest to be mined there, looking at fan reaction, contrasting it to my own. But I also usually end posts in a natural feeling way and including the letters would interrupt my funky flow. But to get to the point: someone wrote in suggesting that Hank give Wasp a power boost so she can actually start to matter in fights more. So its interesting to see this reflected in-comic with Hank going ‘nope my powers.’

Anyway.

Thor carries Cap back to SHIELD HQ but has some private concerns about how long he’s been absent from the Avengers and how he wishes he could stay longer. A perplexement indeed since it seems like its maybe been a couple days since the new roster. Something is going on here.

Meanwhile, back at the mansion, Beast is in a bit of a mood. He wishes he could have someplace to go that isn’t the mansion.

Everyone else Doesn’t Get It, remarking that the mansion isn’t a bad place to be stuck. Wanda and Vision even have a recently rare cute couple moment about it, Wanda declaring that anyplace is great if she’s with Vision and Vision responding without bemoaning and tearing his shirt over what a fakey fake boy he is.

And Beast remembers his time on the X-Men, a perhaps more successful time.

The plot thread of Beast not knowing his place on the team hasn’t gone away. Although, for a while, his predilection for disguise has.

So he loudly announces he’s going to go clean up the lab because hey if he can’t be a vital part of the team during battles, he may as well be the janitor.

And then he’s instantly blasted through the wall. Everyone’s a critic, I suppose.

The Avengers rush in to the lab and Black Panther switches on the light to reveal...

GRIM REAPER! This isn’t a surprise because he was on the cover and also his scythe was on the splash.

But here’s the interesting thing.

Wonder Man was never told about his brother and his silly hat. But he recognizes Grim Reaper’s voice.

So Grim Reaper gets a dramatic unmasking moment and gets to say “I AM YOUR BROTHER!”

Alas, its three years too early for Wonder Man to appropriately respond ‘THATS NOT TRUE THATS IMPOSSIBLE!’

Also, Eric “Grim Reaper” Williams looks kind of like crap. He has a kind of haggard face and a scar over one eye that is somehow not visible when he has the mask on despite the mask having a little room around the eyes.

Vision and Black Panther recap the previous Grim Reaper events for Wonder Man.

And cute couple moment dashed because when Vision says he’s an artificial boy with Simon’s brain patterns, Wanda tries to tell him that he’s not just a machine and he tells her to shut up.

Rude.

Anyway, Vision logically points out the logic that Grim Reaper should have no beef with them anymore. Look, your dang brother is alive.

Grim Reaper: “I WILL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT!”

Ffs, man.

Beast comes to and has lost nearly all of his humors because he is just sick and tired of being useless on this team when he was the strong dude on the X-Men. So he just rushes straight at Grim Reaper and gets his ass reclobbered. And then its time for fight.

But Wonder Man hesitates. Eric is his asshole brother. He can’t fight him!

Scarlet Witch can though and attacks with the power of explosions. Which Grim Reaper (not joking) scythe helicopters over. He then blasts Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, and Beast with some kind of attack that instantly puts all three in a coma.

Hax. Too op. Plz nerf.

Vision, of course, gets super nettled about Wanda being hurt but Grim Reaper has studied every detail of Vision’s construction and has an attack that puts him down instantly too.

Possibly sonic? There are concentric circles. And sonics have proven effective against Vision before.

And then he turns his scythe on Wonder Man and blasts him, although apologetically.

There’s darkness, as if to represent the passage of time during unconsciousness.

Then the Avengers all wake up at their conference table, with special manacles specially attuned to their molecular makeup and designed to cause ludicrous pain in case of contempt of court.

And we get to see two more of the chair logos!

Scarlet Witch has a stylized W for Witch but I can’t help but notice that it is also her tiara thing upside down and now have to wonder if that was always supposed to be a W. Although upside down would be an M. For mutant? Costume design, you are an enduring mystery.

Vision has his diamond but I’m pretty sure we saw that one before.

And Black Panther has a cute little kitty cat. So he wins.

Anyway, as implied by the cover the theme of Grim Reaper’s emotional turmoil for today is a trial.

He will be playing the prosecuting attorney slash inquisitor. Black Panther will arbitrarily play the defense counsel.

I have to wonder why Black Panther but the other options are Scarlet Witch, who may be slightly biased, and Beast who Grim Reaper doesn’t really know. So I guess that makes sense.

And the name of the game is:

Grim Reaper: “Two men cannot share my brother’s identity! One of them must die!”

So Grim calls Vision to the stand. Which is a chair that Grim Reaper has pulled away from the table to represent a the stand. Because he is committed to this farce.

On the cough cough ‘stand’ Vision recaps his origin: created by Ultron, well actually, adapted from the original robot Human Torch and given the brain-waves of Simon Williams because programming is hard.

So because his personality is derived from Simon Williams’ brain waves, he is in many ways somewhat like the original deal. Although they don’t here explain those similarities.

In Kurt Busiek’s run, where we revisit many of these robo-angst plot points, its revealed that Vision and Simon have very similar tastes in music and literature and women. The last one is the real sticking point.

Anyway, Grim Reaper threatens to destroy Vision if he’s just a mechanical mockery of his brother. Oh and then he reveals that once Vision accepted Grim Reaper’s offer to steal Captain America’s body, which Vision has to confirm that yes he said yes to the offer.

Which is clearly evidence that Vision is Grim’s real brother because he felt a right to a human body even at the expense of a teammate. BUT ALSO: remember how Vision protected Grim Reaper from a deadly Hydra attack? LIKE A TRUE BROTHER???

So is the supposed “Wonder Man” merely an imposter that Vision is trying to shield from Grim’s wrath? YOUR WITNESS BLACK PANTHER.

This line of questioning is dumb because it is finally revealed in this issue who was behind the resurrection of Wonder Man. Spoilers: Its Grim Reaper.

Anyway, Black Panther first objects that any Avenger would act to preserve life, even if that life is Grim Reaper life.

Although, this is not the whole truth. At the time, Vision revealed that because Grim Reaper may be his brother kinda, he felt the need to protect him sorta. It was vague and not entirely logical. Like Vision himself.

Black Panther cross-examines Vision and asks why he agreed to Grim Reaper’s mad body-swapping scheme. And Vision reveals, as the issue at the time revealed, that he was just playing along so Cap could ambush Grim Reaper.

Grim Reaper seems confused by this, almost like he didn’t remember Cap and Vision kicking his ass.

Also, Black Panther burns him almighty.

He also says that Vision won’t fit into the role that Grim Reaper wants to cast him. Vision is his own man, taking his life into his own hands. Why he has even taken a wife.

Which seems an AH HA moment for Grim Reaper because his brother would never marry a mutant! Because Grim Reaper is a bigot in addition to being weirdly fixated on his brother.

Meanwhile, Wonder Man is off to the side trying to ignore the crush he has on Wanda.

I joke, he’s really off to the side flummoxed that his brother is doing all this. But he does have feelings for Wanda at some point. Supposedly he was attracted to her even before he died (when?? when did he ever meet her?) and that formed the basis for Vision’s own interest in her. But that’s a dumb retcon.

Anyway, Grim Reaper calls Wonder Man to the stand/chair.

And Wanda asks Vision what he’s playing at when Grim Reaper may kill him. But Vision says he’s not Simon Williams and if that’s a crime, well he guesses he’ll die. But better he die for not being Simon Williams than Simon Williams suffer a second death for not being Simon Williams.

So now its Wonder Man’s turn to sit in the chair and recap his backstory. Recruited by the Masters of Evil when he was at his lowest point, made swole with ionic power and used as a traitor against the Avengers.

But it wasn’t the Avengers who killed him! To Grim Reaper’s apparent shock. He seems really clueless of a lot of things, actually.

Wonder Man died after turning on Zemo. And seems to think he got blasted for it. But it was really that Zemo didn’t give him the cure. I mean, that was the plot, right?

Then the ‘corpse’ was kept in a special preservative coffin but was stolen (by Grim Reaper). Then ??? and then he was delivered as a zombie (wait we can say that now?) to the Avengers’ front step in a big crate. The Avengers tracked down a voodoo priest called Black Talon and Scarlet Witch kicked his ass but Zombie Wonder Man still walked. And began to feel and think and remember. And by the time the Avengers were fighting Living Laser and the Serpent Crown and Nuklo and all that nonsense, Wonder Man was back to himself again.

Good enough for Grim Reaper! (Redramatically unmasks) The voice and mannerisms are right! This must be the real brother!

OBJECTION says Black Panther

(I knew I kept that for a reason)

Returning from death is impossible! True death is irrevocable!

(Oh Black Panther, how little you know of the comic book world...)

Whatever this Wonder Man is, he is not the same as the man he was before or even ANY man who EVER lived!

And Simon Williams is shocked, shocked, that someone figured it out. He takes off his goggles and reveals that his eyes glow with crimson kirby crackle. He knows he isn’t the same. But he doesn’t know what he has become... and it scares him.

Imagine coming back to life. Years have passed. The world is different. And there’s a feeling deep inside, staring at you in the mirror, that you’re not what you were. The world is not the only thing that has changed. And you wonder (hah!) if you are even human anymore...

There’s a lot of good material you could mine with Wonder Man. I remember it being squandered but maybe I remember wrong.

Grim Reaper is taken aback at Simon’s reveal and it actually feels like a small, human moment. Like maybe there’s a human connection still to be preserved here beyond the hyperbolic dramatics of the Grim Reaper.

But Vision calls Grim Reaper out. If he’s going to kill one of them, just get it over with and also kill him specifically. Because he (the Reaper) is a fool to think that he can ever have his brother back as he was.

Maybe Vision was a fool too because he had once hoped that he was in some way Simon Williams but he is his own unique, beautiful individual! He is the Vision! And he is content with that.

And if Wonder Man has somehow stepped beyond humanity, maybe he and Vision are the true brothers?

NO THAT IS NOT AN ANSWER I LIKE Grim Reaper expresses by torturing his captives.

And with all the Avengers knocked unconscious, Grim Reaper monologues that they would tremble if they knew who provided him the technology to build the manacles. Also now he’s going to execute the android kthx.

And then Wonder Man punches him in the face and it is super satisfying.

Sometimes comics are good.

Wonder Man says that his molecular structure must be different now, since his change. The manacles don’t work right on him.

Grim Reaper: “Simon, you fool! Don’t you realize that what I’ve done... and what I’m doing is for you? Stay back!”

And he blasts at Simon and Simon punches a big piece of machinery at him which Grim Eric shreds with his helicopter scythe.

Back when they were kids, Eric used to beat the stuffing out of Simon all the time. Eric was the big brother and the more athletically inclined to Simon’s quiet bookish type. But things have changed.

Grim Reaper: “Listen to me! I’ve worked long and hard for your sake! Right or wrong, for years I held the Avengers responsible for your death, and sought revenge! I paid the Black Talon a fortune to use his voodoo -- to raise your body and send it among the Avengers to kill them! But for the Scarlet Witch, you yourself would have been the instrument --.”

A lot to unpack here. Grim Reaper basically admits that maybe his revenge was misplaced but eh, sunk cost. Also, that he was the one that resurrected Black Talon but it doesn’t seem he thought he’d get his brother back. He just wanted a Wonder Man zombie (seriously, we can say that now? Its only been a few issues...) to bludgeon the Avengers to death with.

I’m not sure what the actual plan was since the Wonder Man zombie collapsed rather than murder anyone. But maybe that’s the point. Wonder Man had been brought back, not just as a body, and wouldn’t revenge on anyone. That was what derailed the plan.

Grim Reaper blasts Wonder Man with all his remaining power but just shreds his shirt.

Grim Reaper: “Look, I -- I’m trying to tell you how much it means -- to have my real brother back, instead of that android copy! But I had to be sure! I had to test you both!”

With the blade out of power but the whirl engine still whirling, Grim Reaper tries to fend Simon off with the helicoptering. But Simon just marches right into it, the scythe breaking off on his pecs.

And as Grim Reaper stares in disbelief at the stump of his weapon, Wonder Man punches him out. And then deactivates the manacles from the rest of the Avengers.

The Avengers rouse, glad to have survived that nonsense. Scarlet Witch thanks Wonder Man for saving Vision and Vision himself says he is ever in Wonder Man’s debt.

Its Beast that notices that Wonder Man isn’t altogether okay with what he had to do.

But Wonder Man just asks to be left alone for a while.

Because its not Avengers if someone isn’t brooding at the end.

And because in addition to coming back to life having missed several years, feeling like his humanity has slipped him by on his resurrection, Wonder Man had to learn today that his brother, who he already had a contentious relationship with, has become a supervillain who has already done terrible things in Simon’s name. I have to imagine that Simon hasn’t gone looking to reunite with any of his family because he doesn’t know how to explain his death and because he wasn’t sure he was himself anymore. But someone came looking for him and even if it was the brother he didn’t get along with, it was someone from his past reconnecting with him. But the way it seems is that now they’ll forever be at odds. Because having his brother back isn’t enough for Eric. He has to kill the ‘imposter’ and Simon can’t stand for that.

Heavy melodramatic stuff.

...

This issue should have gone before the Graviton arc.

You have all this increased tension from Wonder Man’s resurrection and Vision’s existential crisis, leading Vision to be moody and distant and finally come to blows with Wonder Man.

Then the rest of the issue is some gravity jerk.

It would have required a little rewriting but after Vision and Wonder Man throw down is when Grim Reaper should have struck. Get Black Panther in there somehow or use Iron Man or Captain America in Black Panther’s place.

The Avengers are weak and in turmoil from being just off the Attuma misadventure. From just having their asses kicked on Christmas by a statue. And with tempers at a fraying point, Vision at last lashes out and he and Wonder Man rumble.

And Grim Reaper takes that opportunity to jump in. And enact his trial.

Things play out as they did. Maybe expand into a two parter to give some more time to explore Vision’s discontent and the temptation to be considered the ‘real’ brother even by an ass like Grim Reaper. And then its worth more when, as before, he refuses to play Grim Reaper’s game. He stands up for his own individuality and for Wonder Man’s life. And things play out roughly the same.

With the insinuation that the Statue Knight was Ultron’s work, this makes things flow so much better. Ultron and Grim Reaper are implied and later explicitly stated to be working together.

That’s where he gets all his wonderful toys.

Ultron uses the statue as a distraction to allow Grim Reaper to infiltrate into the mansion and set up his little farce. Which Ultron uses as a distraction from his own plans (as we’ll see soon).

The Graviton story can still happen after this but moving the Grim Reaper stuff forward lets the Vision/Wonder Man thing play out instead of being interrupted by a story that didn’t advance it.

Anyway. Those are my thoughts.

Obviously, I liked this issue more than I thought I would, going in. What with Grim Reaper an all. This is a good Grim Reaper use. And it pays off his previous appearances. The problem is that this then, is the only Grim Reaper we ever get, when I think he kind of ran his course here.

In the future, he will seriously try to put Wonder Man and Vision in a blender to create a one, true brother.

So the true brother schemes should have stopped here. As hilarious as that laconic plot description sounds.

Next time: everyone who ever thought the power of small or ants was worst power I laugh at. Next time, beware the Ant-Man.

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darkspellmaster · 7 years ago

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Idea for a Universal Dark Universe.

So given the fall of the Mummy and the crashing of Dracula the Untold story, my sister and I were talking about the old Universal Monsters and the fact that, as James (Angry Video Game Nerd fame) has mentioned before, the Universal Monsters were doing the shared Cinematic universe long before Marvel, DC or Sony even tried. So it’s kind of a bummer that they can’t seem to get this right. After all you have a cast of great characters that can have some great connections, and honestly, given how well known they are it wouldn’t be too hard to pull from their stories to make the whole universe work.

With that in mind, we came up with what we think would be an interesting way to do the Dark Universe and make it different then what we’ve seen with Marvel or DC so far.

So our overall narrative comes from a question of “What is a Monster” and “What makes a monster?” and “Can something scare even monsters?”

The Movies follow a time line and a plot line. However rather than go in chronological order (i.e., earliest date in time to latest date in time), I’m going on what order the movies would be released in. I hope all of this entertains you. (Bare in mind I’m mixing the books with the Universal Movies characters.)

(All characters are being represented by anime characters and the like because I have no idea who would play these characters.)

Movie 1: Frankenstein

Time: 1800s roughly.

Story: We start out with the story of young Victor Frankenstein, son of Baron Alphonse Frankenstein and his wife Caroline. Victor has a younger brother William and a younger sister Earnestine, and the family seems pretty chill. Victor’s father likes to push the boys to do their best and we learn very quickly that Victor wants to prove himself to his father as William, the second son, seems to be the favourite due to him being a natural when it comes to engineering and architecture.

During this time the family takes in the daughter of the Baron’s friend, Elizabeth Lavernza. Victor and Liz grow to like one another and the two later on become sweethearts, and get engaged. Meanwhile Victor starts to attend university where he’s studying medicine and meets up with three men that will become his friends and rivals in various ways.

First there is Henry Clerval, Victor’s best friend from when they were kids. The two share a close bond and both want to go into being doctors for various reasons. Henry’s main goal is to actually help the sick and wants to find cures for illnesses, particularly childhood ones that took away his cousin, Michael (who was like a brother to him).

Second there’s Victor Moritz, the brother of Justine Moritz –Earnestine’s Nanny. Moritz, as he’s called in his circle to distinguish him and Victor from each other at times, comes off as a bit of a callous man, and sees only money in his work and wants to make a lot as his family was not well off and he intends to make enough to help out his sister and his family. He views death and life as one in the same and doesn’t think Victor’s plans are going to work.

Lastly there’s Felix De Lacey, the son of a blind French Merchant who is a rather arrogant man who wants to repair his father’s eyesight and, while he and Victor have a feud, both recognise each other’s talents. Felix also seems to have a thing for Elizabeth, and mentions to her several times that he thinks she would be better off with a man like him.

During this time in the university Victor’s mother Caroline dies of Scarlet Fever, and he nearly loses his younger sister Earnestine to it as well. It leaves Earnestine weaker, making Victor feel guilty about not being there for his sister and brother, or his mother. During this time, he starts to worry about who is raising the boys now that their mother is gone, and who will instill in them a sense of morality. He talks about the ideas of life and death with two of his Professors: Dr. Henry Waldman and Dr. William Krempe.

Both men have a major influence over Victor, but while Waldman points out that while one could bring back life theoretically, it’s not wise to play god, whereas Krempe, who sees an opportunity if Victor gets this right to gain more influence in the University, tells him “Go for it.” Of these two Krempe is seen as more of an uncouth man, who longs for recognition and wants to gain a sense of power and prestige in academia. Krempe gets Victor to consider testing one of Victor’s theories about bringing things to life with electricity.

Of course Victor starts to experiment on small things, dead animals and the like, and manages to get them to move with a voltage of electricity to their hearts. This gets him to think he can actually bring the dead back to life. His friends though think he’s nuts until he proves his point in bringing back to life a cat that Felix’s sister, Agatha, lost recently. Henry and Moritz are amazed, and a bit scared by this, Felix is rather upset because this means that Victor is going to become a more influential student in the university then himself. Of course in the meantime Victor gets engaged to Elizabeth, and Henry is starting to date Agatha. All seems well as Victor’s work is going along smoothly.

That changes when he’s summoned home by his father, he’s gotten older and can’t run his business anymore, forcing Victor to have to take over as Baron for the time. This doesn’t bode well with Victor as it means giving up his plans at the university. But he does what he must and leaves. Felix thinks this means that Krempe is going to see him as the prized student, but Krempe is pissed that Victor is going.

He visits young Victor at home and urges him to keep up the experiments. In the meantime, Moritz has decided that being a human doctor is a pain in the ass and got an easier degree in the form of taking care of animals as a Vet. He’s moved back into town and Victor tells him what he’s doing. Again Moritz doesn’t think much of it, but decides to help him out by offering up the services of one of his helpers, a slower thinking man by the name of Fritz. Fritz befriends Victor and the two start work on bringing a human to life. Henry is still in school but is keeping in contact with Elizabeth who is starting to worry about Victor and the letters and visits from Krempe. Eventually Henry comes to see Victor and tries to talk him out of his plans, but it fails.

All this time though Felix is getting more and more pissed off, and Krempe is pushing him more and more as Victor keeps ignoring the man, and has stated to him that he’s not about to share his stuff with Krempe. Krempe gets Felix to basically hate Victor, and at first he doesn’t intend to go see Victor for Krempe, but when Agatha’s cat drops dead again, he realizes the plan isn’t going to work. Or so he thinks.

Felix goes to see Victor, and brings the dead cat, pointing out that the cat couldn’t sustain itself even with the electricity, and that there’s something off with it. Victor tries to fix the issue, but can’t as the cat has been dead for too long and there’s no way to fix the issue. However, that gets him thinking about a different set of chemicals and he and Fritz go to get a body(bodies?) to work with. Each time though the charge won’t sustain it and the creature dies again, making Victor feel bad. He decides to give it one more go, with a lighting experiment. That night though Kempe comes and, after a fight with Victor, screws with a section of the setup for the lightning bolt. In this case Victor’s test gets screwed up badly. The “monster” that was to be his creature is fried, and he is killed from the bolt. Fritz freaks out and Victor who was there with Elizabeth at the time rushes down to find his friend dead. Of course a funeral is held and Victor is placed in a mausoleum next to his mother. Fritz though can’t live without his friend, and steals the corpse a day or so later. He brings it back to the lab, and Henry, who is there with Earnestine as the Baron and William are out making arrangements to sell Victor’s things, rushes down with the younger man to see Fritz screwing around with the machine during a thunder storm. Henry, in trying to stop Fritz, inadvertently helps him and the three are shocked when Victor wakes up.

The story continues where the group of Henry, Victor Moritz, Elizabeth and Earnestine, have to hide that Victor is alive and undead. Felix’s sister Agatha gets killed by someone during a night when Victor, who is trying to grapple with what he’s become, wandered out of the house. Fritz finds him and hides him when the police come and they arrest the poor man. Henry at first suspects it’s Victor’s doing and tries to get him to confess to the crime, even though Victor doesn’t remember killing Agatha. The two come to blows, with Victor nearly killing his friend after he gets stabbed and feels no pain from it. Fearing he’s becoming a monster he tries to leave the country, but he can’t go when Fritz is going to trial over a crime he didn’t commit.

Felix is also suspecting that Fritz didn’t do the crime and discovers Victor, whom he thinks killed his sister as well. The two come to an uneasy alliance after Victor Moritz proves that it couldn’t have been Victor or Fritz that killed Agatha. Henry, in the meantime goes to see Kempe who, after Henry starts to put things together about Agatha and her death being committed by Kempe, gets knocked out and nearly burned when he sets fire to the house. Victor, being what he is now, goes in and saves his friend, but people see him and flip out.

Victor, fearing for the safety of his family and friends, flees. Henry alerts Felix that it was Kempe who killed his sister, hoping to cause another situation like Victors to happen. Kempe in the meanwhile has taken Elizabeth, as he intends to kill her and use her to prove his point in France, as he thinks he’s going to be safe there. However, Victor, Felix and Moritz catches up to him. Kempe manages to shoot and injure Felix after Moritz loses his gun. Kempe admits that he pretty much screwed up Victor’s experiment in the first place, but that Victor owes him for what he is now, and how he’s a marvel. Victor says no he’s made him a monster, and to prove it, he comes at Kempe slowly, even as he’s being shot, and takes him with him off the pier into the murky water below.

Everyone thinks that Victor and Kempe is dead. A while later Henry is traveling to America with Earnestine who is carrying the book of Frankenstein as written by Earnestine’s friend Mary Shelly. Felix is actively seeking out a way to memorialize Agatha, but there are hints he’s thinking of trying Victor’s experiments on his late sister and it looks like Victor and Elizabeth are taking care of the Baron.

Mid credits set up: One night, someone crawls up from the water and it’s revealed to be Victor. Elizabeth finds him and he tells her that he can’t stay, he’s dead and she needs to live a happy life. The two kiss and he departs into the darkness.

After credits jumps forward to the 1954 where we see a tv in London in a shop showing off a news item about Dr. Maia expedition to the Amazon. It pans over to reveal a man with a newspaper reading about the sponsored trip from an unknown person of wealth, and we see upon that paper being lowered that it’s Victor, still looking very much like he did when he died all those years ago wondering if the expedition that he’s funding will be worth the trouble.

Movie 2: Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Time Period: 1954 (same year as the original movie came out)

Story: Movie starts off where the teaser left off. We see Dr. Carla Maia, a palaeontologist who is looking for evidence of earlier creatures that could link between when dinosaurs came onto land from the water, doing an interview and explaining what her crew is going to be doing. Fellow researcher and her friend Dr. David Reed is there with his boss Dr. Mark Williams to see her off. Mark is not too thrilled with this expedition, as it’s being paid for by an unknown person whom Carla says is a family friend, and she won’t disclose the name. David sees this as a good thing for Carla, since Mark wasn’t willing to fund her research in the first place, and wishes her luck.

While on the expedition Carla’s main assistant Marco comes across a strange fossil that has a claw like structure and webbings, but clearly has more of a human like physiology to it. Carla manages to surmise that it probably comes from the Devonian period, and maybe a link between when animals came from the water to land. But she wants to be sure, so she leaves Marco and Antonio behind to watch over the camp and heads back to Rio to talk to David, who’s an ichthyologist, and is hoping for some additional insight into what they found. David is studying some form of lung fish with his assistant and girlfriend Kaye Lawrence. The two have been dating for about three years now and David is a bit hesitant to offer marriage to her as he worries that her family will not want her married to a man that is a Fish Doctor, as her father called him.

When Carla returns, Kaye –who is working on her PHD on aquatic amphibians and lizards–points out that the creature has similar structure to some known under water frogs, but that the hand also seems to be more lizard like as well in dimension and finger length. David and Carla find this odd, and after consulting with a few other people decide it might be best to do some field research on this.

Meanwhile, the creature has been noticing activity near his lair and came to check it out. On the first few nights while Carla is away not much happens, other than the creature taking food from them, and also watching the group curiously. Things take a darker turn when during one night following Carla leaving one of the men that is working for the group gets paranoid from the local ghost stories in the area. While out to use the bathroom he is stumbled upon by the Creature. Panicking he shoots at it, and the creature, scared and cornered, attacks killing him then quickly leaves. His body is found the following morning and the men think he’s been attacked by a wild animal and are on guard. The creature stays away but is now warry of the men that are at the camp.

David, Kaye and Carla talk Mark into allowing David and Kaye to go check out the findings, but Mark insists upon coming along as he sees dollar signs from this discovery. Dr. Menos, one of the lead researchers at the institute suggests a friend of his, a Lucas Moritz, who owns a tramp steamer that will take them back to the location where the claw was found. Lucas turns out to be a rather calm man but one that doesn’t trust anyone, and doesn’t seem to like Carla because she reminds him of his ex-wife in a number of ways. Captain Lucas seems a bit reluctant, as his family has had dealings with weird things and they have caused them nothing but trouble. He went to Brazil after the war to get away from his family issues. Along with the group is geologist Dr. Edwin Thompson, who works with Mark and is wondering if this trip is really worth it, or if Carla faked the whole thing.

When the team arrive at the camp they find that at least three of the men have been killed, two from unknown circumstances (the first and third man) and one from friendly fire (second one). Carla is unnerved by this, as are the others. Lucas tries to play it off as an attack from a Jaguar, but Carla and David aren’t sure. Mark though figures that it’s the best explanation and wants this excavation to be underway.

The group digs about the location, finding items but nothing that would be close to the fossil that they found before. While searching Kaye notices the creature and, thinking it’s one of the local wild life tries to take a picture of it, but the Creature hurries away. However its subsequent visits make it enamored of her. As the group keeps looking the local refer to legends of the gill-man, a creature that is half fish half human, that hides in the local area, and reportedly resides in the Black Lagoon, a place that is paradise but also is apparently terrifying.

Mark, annoyed with the fact that they haven’t found anything, is insisting on packing up and leaving. However David and Kaye manage to convince him to allow them to go to search the Lagoon after Kaye points out that the remains could have drifted farther down river. Mark, again seeing money, agrees to let them go, much to the reluctance of Lucas and the other members of his crew. Carla cautions that they shouldn’t linger too long as locals have reportedly gone missing in the water there, and it’s not very clear.

The Creature, seeing them head towards his home, follows after, still interested in Kaye. When they get to the Lagoon, David and Mark go to collect samples on the lagoon floor, while Edwin and Carla take control of the banks and Kaye catalogues their findings. As the afternoon wears on the four scientist come back to check out their findings. Kaye and Mark have a fight over who has the right for keeping the items that they find and she thinks that Carla’s institute should have them. Mark threatens to fire her, but David quickly points out that she’s one of the best in her field and it would be a shame for Mark to let her go. Kaye is glad that David stuck up for her, but feels that he’s not giving her a chance to prove herself to Mark and being a wall between them.

Feeling a bit confined at the moment Carla suggest that Kaye take a swim to cool off, but warns to not go too far from the boat. Kaye agrees and goes into the water. While in the water Kaye is stalked by the Gill-man and is touched by him to her shock. She swims back to the boat and the Gill-man gives chase only to be caught on the drag line and, in his hurry to free himself, he rips off part of his claw leaving it behind. Kaye returns to the boat, scared but not harmed. Edwin and Lucas think they should bail, and Carla is beginning to think that it might be the work of a group of rebel fighters in the area. Just as David is starting to agree that it’s time to leave, one of Lucas’s men pulls up the claw and shows the group.

Carla and David are thrilled to see the claw and examine it. Kaye still wants to leave, but Mark insists that they must capture the creature. Mark plots on using Kaye as bait, since she was what pulled it to the ship at first, and David suggest using Carla since Kaye just got freaked out. But Kaye, agrees, only with the condition that David and Carla don’t have to work under Mark if they get the creature. A deal is struck and Kaye tries to lure the creature back, but it’s in hiding, nursing its wound.

Over the next few days Lucas men get attacked and some killed by the Gill-man as he tries to get to Kaye. Eventually he gets captured and locked in a cage. Carla, Kaye and David are surprised by how intelligent he is and start to carefully study him, but Mark sees money and wants to sell him. Kaye feels sorry for the creature and befriends him with Carla. Worried that his money is going to be let go by David, whom Kaye has convinced into allowing the creature to go back to its home after they take some samples and tag it for monitoring, Mark insists that Edwin stand guard. During the night the creature escapes, and several injures Edwin in the process.

While it’s out Gill-man goes after Kaye and tries to kidnap her, only for her to rebuff him by hitting him in the face full force with a lantern. Wounded, but not deterred, the creature tries for her again, only to be hit in the arm by a dart gun wielded by Carla. Gill-man dives off the ship, with Lucas firing a shot or two into the water to keep it at bay. He stands guard until morning, and David agrees with him that they have to leave at first light, since Edwin is hurt and the creature will certainly be back. The duo tell the ladies their plans, but Mark refuses to let them leave, so they tie him up with the express purpose of keeping him from knowing that they’re leaving.

Plans though go south when they try to leave and the Creature ends up blocking their path with a damn of trees. David and Carla, along with the remains of the crew, get rid of the logs while Lucas steers the boat. While this is happening Edwin, in his delirious state, unties Mark who ties him up in turn and then goes after the creature to capture it (or Kill it) and bring it back to the ship to sell it in parts or put it up as a show piece. Unfortunately for him Gill-man is none too pleased, and mauls him underwater, ending his life.

Kaye, trying to find out where Mark went, gets kidnapped by the Gill-man when he manages to pull her over after she’s found the rope that Mark used to guide him back to the boat. Edwin sees this and alerts the others. David insists on going after the creature, Carla and Lucas, agree to go with and the trio go after the creature. Kaye is being held in the lair and here she learns about the creature and that it is smart and has been alive for a while. It gives hints that the creature can mate with women, and there’s hints that the newer creatures are born from the local populace that went missing. Kaye realizes that the creature wants her to be a mom, and refuses the offer. Just then David and co rush in.

There’s a standoff between the creature and the others, leading to Lucas and Carla realizing that the best thing to do is knock the creature out. Which they do using a rock and some gas, and Kaye explains what the hell is going on here. Carla realizes that the creature won’t be safe here because there will be other Marks and decides to take him back to Rio. She carefully locks the creature up and makes sure that it knows she’s not there to hurt it. Kaye and David decide to report Mark’s death as an accident and leave it at that. The last thing we see is Carla writing a letter to Victor telling him about her findings, and Victor writing back sending her money to set up a lagoon for the creature in an unspecified location.

After credits we get a shot of the claw being looked at by a young man in a museum, and his mother calling him over telling him, “Will, come on. I thought you wanted to see the mummies!” He says he’s coming and we see the two enter a Mummy exhibit at a museum. (I’m breaking these into parts as they are long.

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On The Ropes - Part 4

Reader is a cop that was shot in the line of duty. As part of her physical therapy, she picks up boxing at the local gym in town, On The Ropes, owned by two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester. She is drawn to the elder brother when Dean starts working with her on moving, coordination and finally hitting. Once they get in the ring, things don’t go as planned. Dean is just as taken with her as she is with him, but she thinks of herself as broken because of her job and injury. Can Dean make her see things differently?

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Word Count: 1462 Warnings: Language, implied sex, mentions of murder, hmm maybe that is it? Thanks to the ever amazing @just-another-busy-fangirl for being, well amazing, and @mamaredd123 for her help in pulling this out! ~*~ You were just heading to the precinct when a call came in; a body was found in an alley on the Eastside. You and Mike rolled up and set up a perimeter while you waited on the coroner and the detectives. People were so jaded nowadays that no one even noticed the dead body lying there.

Detectives Dawn Redman and Bob Williams were assigned to the case. You had worked with both of them before and they both had solid reputations and had rightfully earned their way to Detective. You, in fact, were friends with Dawn and she had been mentoring you since you confided in her that you wanted to make Detective.

Det. Redman crossed under the yellow crime scene tape and approached you.

“What’d’ya got here, Y/L/N?” she asked.

“Local business owner called 911 reporting shots fired in the area. My partner and I were first on the scene. Caucasian male, appears to be mid to late twenties, no identification, single GSW to the chest,” I recited from my log book.

“Good job, Y/N/N. We have it from here. The others are canvassing, you and Mikey head on in and clear,” Det. Redman dismissed you and you and your partner headed in.

It was after eight when you got home. After a quick shower and a snack, you texted Dean and settled on the couch with a beer and some mindless reruns. After a few minutes, your eyelids were heavy and you nodded off. Despite the events that ended your shift, you slept peacefully, dreaming of Dean.

~*~

Dean and Sam sat across from John. It was an odd feeling that came over Dean. The man he had looked up to for the first half of his life didn’t look anything like the man in front of him now. He was thinner than Dean remembered, his face drawn and he looked tired, weary.

“Your mom tells me you boys done good for yourselves, opened up a boxing gym. I always knew you boys would,” John spoke, a proud smile on his face.

Dean looked over at his mother as Sam was telling John all about the gym watching her carefully. She quickly excused herself, mumbling something about pie, and he followed her.

“Mom? What is this? What is he doing here?” Dean questioned her as she sliced a fresh apple pie.

“Dean,” she began with a heavy sigh, “he is your father and he wanted to see you boys.”

“Yeah, I know he is, but we don’t need this right now. Things at the gym have been going well. Y/N and I are just getting started and I don’t need his drama pulling me down,” he passed her four small plates.

“Honey, he just wants to get to know you again. You don’t have to and I can’t force you. You are an adult and capable of making your own decisions.” Mary put the knife down and placed her hands on her son’s face. “All I ask is that you take some time to think about it. Talk to your girl. I really like her, you know,” Mary told him.

“I know, Mom and I will, but I think this is going to take some getting used to, is all.” Dean added forks to the plates and picked them up. He followed his mother out of the kitchen and back to the table.

“So Dean, Sammy here tells me you got yourself a girl, a cop, huh? Ain’t that something?” John attempted to draw Dean into the conversation.

“Yeah, she is,” Dean said quietly, just as his phone buzzed in his pocket and he reached for it.

“A little rude to take a call in the middle of dinner, don’t you think?” John piped up.

“You lost the right to tell me what to do a long time ago. You want to talk about bad decisions?” Dean started losing his temper.

“Dean…” Sam started to speak, but knowing his brother, thought better of it.

“Mom, thank you for dinner, but I can’t be here right now,” Dean kissed Mary on the cheek, grabbed his jacket and walked out, the back door slamming in his wake.

~*~

“Another whiskey, please,” Dean signaled the bartender as he ordered his second drink. He knew he should return Y/N’s text or call her, but he needed to clear his head first. After fifteen years, John thought he could just walk back into their lives, just like that. Did he really think it was going to be that easy?

~*~

You woke up to your phone buzzing and wiped the sleep from your eyes to see Dean’s face light up your screen.

“Hey handsome, I was just dreaming about you,” you mumbled sleepily.

“Yeah? I was thinking about you too, Sweetheart. I am sorry I didn’t call earlier. It’s late, I should let you get back to sleep,” Dean spoke softly.

“Baby, just come over. I can tell something is on your mind. Did I ever tell you I am a good listener?” You bragged.

“Yeah, you are. Are you sure? I don’t want to keep you up,” Dean hesitated, but you could tell he wanted to.

“Of course I am sure, silly. Get your sweet ass over here, besides, I just took a nap; I can listen for hours,” you convinced him.

“Okay, I will be there in ten,” Dean replied.

It took less than ten minutes and Dean was softly knocking on your front door. You let him in and greeted him with a deep kiss, tasting the whiskey on him. You released him and lead him to the couch where you leaned into him.

“Spill it Winchester, what’s up? You don’t usually drink on a school night,” you coaxed.

“Um, ahh, my dad is out and he is, ah, in town. We had dinner with him tonight,” Dean revealed and you could see the pain in his eyes as he told you everything.

“I am so torn on what to do here, Y/N/N. I mean, yeah, he is my dad, but he isn’t the same man I knew fifteen years ago. Prison changes a person, doesn’t it? And I am definitely not the same person I was when he went away. Christ, I was only sixteen!” Dean stormed.

“Babe, it is going to take some time. He is still your father and as an adult, you get to choose whether or not you want a relationship with him. You don’t have to do this. Take it slow, take your time. You, Dean Winchester, are a patient man, so do it on your terms,” you advised.

“I am so damn happy I have you in my life. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me,” Dean admitted to you as he wrapped one hand around the side of your face and neck, pulling you to him. His kiss was needy and salty, proof that he had been crying over the events of the day that weighed so heavily on his mind and soul.

“Shhh, it’s okay, Baby, I got you,” you breathed heavily into his mouth as you pulled away slightly. You rose, taking his hand and pulled him with you into your bedroom. It wouldn’t make it go away, but physical contact would help him to forget for the moment.

~*~

“You’re sure?” Det. Redman barked into the phone. A gun had been recovered four days after the body had been discovered and ballistics matched it, confirming it as the murder weapon. They had been waiting on prints for the past three days due to a back log.

“Yeah, I am sure, Detective. I ran it twice, just like always,” the lab tech told her and she slammed the receiver back into it’s cradle.

“Damn!” she barked at no one in particular.

“Come on Williams, that was the lab; we got a lead!” Redman told her partner as she holstered her weapon.

As they headed out to the last known address of the subject, she radioed for a patrol car to meet them.

You and Mike got the call and you called Det. Redman on her cell.

“Dawn, what’s up?” You asked as your partner navigated the busy streets, jammed with rush hour traffic.

“We got him. Prints came back as belonging to John Winchester. He served…” Dawn explained.

“Fifteen years for Involuntary Manslaughter,” you finished her sentence for her.

“Y/N, how did you know that?” Dawn was confused.

“Because he is my boyfriend’s father, he was just released and made his way here, trying to reconnect with his family,” you answered. “But, he isn’t at the address we were given. He is at Mother Mary’s, having dinner with his son, my boyfriend.”

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Essential Avengers: Avengers #153: “Home is the Hero!”

November, 1976

Since I’m typing this while sick, I can’t really figure out if that title makes no sense or what. I know all the words but in that order its like whaaaaat.

There’s actually a number of things going on here that don’t really mesh well with ill loopiness.

But first, the cover.

The Avengers sure are getting their asses kicked by an elderly man with heart troubles.

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!

Actually its kind of weird how easy it is to solo the Avengers if the plot says so. Grim Reaper managed it. The Whizzer is managing it. Orka, the man dressed as the whale that isn’t a whale managed it. Ant-Man will manage it soon. They’re kind of a paper tiger sometimes. Just crumbling before the right single individual.

But its hard to come out with a fresh new story every month, probably.

Also, Jack Kirby cover! And tiny judgemental Vision has changed his pose! It truly is a brand new day!

Anyway.

We start off with Scarlet Witch flying towards the ruins of the Brand Corporation.

Right off the bat, something is amiss.

Scarlet Witch cannot usually fly.

Apparently, this was later retconned as Wanda using an experimental “flying belt” which I guess she was wearing under her leotard. Not a strong early showing for the new creative team, I’ll tell you that.

I think the bare minimum for writing on a comic should be knowing the characters you’re going to be writing.

Although, y’know, its weird that the Avengers didn’t invest in experimental flying belts or flight rings or whatever for their non-flying members. It would save a heap of trouble and they have Tony Stark, right there.

Wonder Man gets a flight belt of sorts later but since its rocket powered and he can only use it because he has an invincible hiney, its not really suitable for the rest of the team.

So okay, Scarlet Witch has returned to the remains of the Brand Corporation which isn’t a crime scene or cordoned off or anything. Ffs, Marvel law enforcement.

When suddenly, a laser ZAMM!s her, causing her to plummet to the ground, her flight belt that she totally has shorted out or something.

Thinking quick, she turns the ground to water to soften her fall but she still gets the wind knocked out of her.

She also happens to land right next to the Serpent Crown, which she is apparently here for. Maybe she’s still subconsciously manipulating probabilities because that’s dang lucky.

Or perhaps darn unlucky. She landed next to the thing but someone shot her out of the sky and after that fall, she’s in no shape to fight whoever is the laser wielding person.

Unsurprise, its the Living Laser.

He’s the worst.

Anyway, he takes his time to gloat about how cool he is. Y’know, just villain things.

But he’s here to take the Serpent Crown. A gaudy hat like that will go wonders with his garish outfit.

How the hell did the Avengers just forget the artifact of doom that they stole from another world?!

Anyway, Living Laser is not like those other villains. Instead of leaving while the hero is helpless, he’s just going to kill her now on the off chance she might become a problem.

So something has to get in the way if his own stupidity won’t.

The Brand private army charges forward to attack Scarlet Witch, recognizing her as one of the Avengers that busted up the place.

Living Laser blasts some of them and then decides to completely forget about Scarlet Witch and laser teleport away. Thanks, laser inattentiveness!

Meanwhile, the rest of the Avengers return from New Orleans in the Quinjet, raising so many questions. Did Scarlet Witch fly all the way to New York with the experimental flying belt that she somehow got between issues? Why not just catch a ride most of the way with the Avengers since they were headed the same way?

This Is Something I Have To Do Myself is a cursed trope, constantly vexing me.

Anyway. The Avengers return. And have to go into their mansion through the back door because there’s still a big mob of lookie-loos and newspeeps at the front door. Even though Jarvis kicked them off the property last issue.

You need to work on your follow-through, Jarvis.

But here’s a thing: over the past several hours, Wonder Man’s heartbeat has been getting stronger. He’s coming back to life, maybe!

Oh and Jarvis shows up and implies why he didn’t finish tossing out the nosy mob. The Avengers had a guest show up while they were out and Jarvis deposited him in the sitting room to await their return.

Its Bob Frank, the Whizzer (But not the Squadron Sinisterpreme one. The All-Winners Squad and Liberty Legion one). And he specifically wants to see Vision.

Apparently the Whizzer disappeared after Quicksilver and Crystal’s wedding and Wanda and Vision worried after him. They even thought him dead. Not enough to ever bring it up or go searching for him on panel. But they were worried, on the inside.

But Whizzer didn’t come to wallow in self-pity or explain what he’s been up to. He’s come to check on Wanda, because of that broadcast that implied she might leave the Avengers. Remember? From #151?

Vision confides that Wanda temporarily left him and the Avengers the previous night on a journey of self-understanding and wishes to be alone.

And then someone shines a laser in Bob Frank’s eye and instead of going blind, all hell breaks loose.

The Whizzer goes wild and BOM!s Vision. He also forgot who Vision was and what they were talking about.

Wouldn’t it be terrifying for someone with superpowers to get dementia?

That’s not going on here and frankly I’ll express my doubts at the ability of the Avengers book to handle the subject with the tact and respect required. But the thought occurred to me.

Thank god for sliding time scales, I guess.

Anyway, Vision was BOM!’d unconscious and Whizzer whizzes off as if searching for something.

But finds Captain America, Beast, and Iron Man, who came to investigate that BOM!.

Cap throws his mighty shield but Whizzer, he does not yield. I’m calling into question his patriotism.

Whizzer calls Cap Isbisa, accuses him of wanting to take over the world and then WHAM!s Iron Man hard while Beast cannonballs out of the way, spouting witticisms.

Cap tries to talk Whizzer down but Whizzer spins him right round until he corkscrews up and into the ceiling. Like. INTO the ceiling. As in, its a surprise Cap has any skull left.

And then we reach a short impasse of sorts. Whizzer is moving too fast for Beast to do much to. The guy is freaked out and apparently hypnotized to boot. But Beast is acrobatic enough that Whizzer is maybe too fast to catch him? If that makes sense?

So instead he uses brains. He runs at and bounces off the wall so hard that part of the ceiling collapses, burying Beast.

Quicksilver could learn a lot from this guy, as far as purposefully running into walls goes.

And with no one left to fight, Whizzer’s head clears a little. Its not the forties at all. And then he hears a buzzing and suddenly his head feels like its splitting apart from pain.

And then he passes out.

Because apparently Yellowjacket and the Wasp had flown inside his ear and shot his ear drums.

Clever of them to not just join the fight and instead wait until everyone else got punched.

Eighteen minutes of off-screen action and the two size-changing heroes manage to scrape together the other three. Beast is conscripted to carry Whizzer to the lab.

Beast: “Since when was I elected donkey for this troop?”

Vision: “In many ways, you are our strongest member, Hank McCoy -- and thus, you may sometimes be unduly burdened.”

I call shenanigans on that. You’re just hazing the new guy, aren’t you?

But while everyone was either getting beaten up by the Whizzer or flying inside his ears, Wonder Man vanished. And not only that, someone wrecked up the lab where they left him.

It almost feels as if the whole thing with the Whizzer was some kind of distraction?

Anyway, Wonder Man stumbles out the side exit of the mansion because its a mansion and can have more than two exists. And some of the lookie-loos spot him and recognize him as Wonder Man.

They immediately get right up in his personal space, grabbing at him and begging for souvenirs.

And Simon Williams, aka Wonder Man, is not really up to speed yet. He’s running in safe mode, as it were. Because he acts on instinct to being mobbed and smacks away the crowd and then absconds.

And the narration notes that at this point he’s almost moving like a normal living person, with none of the stiffness of a zuvembie. Also, gone is the blank expressionless stare ALTHOUGH HOW YOU COULD TELL THAT THROUGH THE VISOR IS BEYOND ME, CREATIVE TEAM.

So, yeah. Remember how we left Scarlet Witch at Brand?

Yeah, she’s still there. And still being accosted by the Brand private army that doesn’t know that their bosses have all been arrested and they are probably unemployed.

She doesn’t even bother telling them either. Just dismisses them as frozen in blind obedience and immediately starts scarlet witching at them.

And then becomes frightened of the violence that her powers can cause, which seems like a step back for her, possibly. Not the sort of way her character was going under Englehart, is the feeling I get. Where she ripped a meteor from heaven and exulted in it. And now she gets frightened because she made the ground shake a little.

Oh, and then she gets shot.

One of the Brand punks she knocked down was playing possum, grabbed a gun and managed to get her in the shoulder.

Scarlet Witch decides to leave this pointless fight and warn the Avengers about the Living Laser and the Serpent Crown.

Now back to Wonder Man, already in progress.

The resurrected or whatever Wonder Man has been wandering the streets of Yorktown but finds himself drawn to a bright light down a particular street.

And a figure appears in that bright light.

AHHHHHH WONDER MAN IS BEING ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!

Oh. Oh. No, its Living Laser.

Anyway, he says he mentally commanded Wonder Man to come here to become his slave. And he also shot the Whizzer to hallucinate that the Avengers were enemies by shooting him in the eye with a laser. Which presumably was a distraction so that he could mentally command Wonder Man to wreck the lab and leave the mansion.

It’s all coming together.

Living Laser now has improved laser powers (possibly even laser willpower), the Serpent Crown, and Wonder Man as muscle.

Oh and Living Laser wasn’t the one who resurrected Wonder Man either. He considers it an unimportant mystery that might amuse him to solve one day.

We getting a lot of red herrings on our way through this mystery.

So while Living Laser proceeds with another brilliant part of his master plan of awesomeness, he commands Wonder Man to seek out and destroy the Avengers!

If they’re fighting and being killed by Wonder Man, they can’t interfere. Its genius.

And Wonder Man agrees.

“THE AVENGERS MUST BE DESTROYED!”

Geez. Think for yourself you holly jolly idiot.

We have a letters column again this time. Do people care about the letters column from decades ago? I kind of find it interesting in a pinhole snapshot kind of way.

Someone complains about the amount of reprinted material in #150, which I’m right there for. Another person complains about taking Thor out of the Avengers saying they wouldn’t be the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes without him (the Kooky Quartet weeps), instead suggesting that a character who hasn’t been in the line-up so long be removed. Which would be... probably only Beast? Everyone else has been around a long time, even during times when Thor was off the team.

Whoever answers these letters invites readers to send in their opinions for a Thor vs No Thor poll. Might be interesting, if its included in the Marvel Unlimited version.

Next time: this story concludes in a Giant-Size Avengers. Give all your money to Marvel. Consume. Obey. Obey the Serpent Crown.

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