For Korra and Steph
May. 3rd, 2015 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sayshazamAlex was gone. One minute she was there and the next... not. They were talking and she had ducked into the kitchen to get something and there was just silence. When he looked in to check on her she just... wasn't there. There wasn't any time for her to even duck out the window or anything. One second she was there and the next... no Alex.
Billy had been in Darrow long enough to know that weird stuff happened. Which is why the first the he had done was turn into Shazam and check out the immediate area. Then he used every spell he could think of (which mostly consisted of shouting nonsense words followed by "bring back Alex") to find out what happened to her.
School had been completely forgotten as was hanging out with Steph after classes and his training with Korra later in the evening. All Billy had been able to think about was finding Alex. She couldn't be gone, she couldn't because Billy needed her. Alex was the one that had convinced him to be her roommate. She was the one that kept reaching out to him and befriending him. She was the one that had made him care about her.
And now she was gone and it wasn't fair! It wasn't fair because she made Billy think it was okay to get close to people and now she had left him just like everyone always did. He had been right, he couldn't count on people to stay because they just left you. They left you and they didn't take their dog and now he had two dogs and an apartment he couldn't afford on his own and-
"And I wish I had never met her!" he shouted into the empty apartment. Maybe if he screamed it loud enough he would actually believe it. Then maybe it wouldn't hurt so much.
Billy had been in Darrow long enough to know that weird stuff happened. Which is why the first the he had done was turn into Shazam and check out the immediate area. Then he used every spell he could think of (which mostly consisted of shouting nonsense words followed by "bring back Alex") to find out what happened to her.
School had been completely forgotten as was hanging out with Steph after classes and his training with Korra later in the evening. All Billy had been able to think about was finding Alex. She couldn't be gone, she couldn't because Billy needed her. Alex was the one that had convinced him to be her roommate. She was the one that kept reaching out to him and befriending him. She was the one that had made him care about her.
And now she was gone and it wasn't fair! It wasn't fair because she made Billy think it was okay to get close to people and now she had left him just like everyone always did. He had been right, he couldn't count on people to stay because they just left you. They left you and they didn't take their dog and now he had two dogs and an apartment he couldn't afford on his own and-
"And I wish I had never met her!" he shouted into the empty apartment. Maybe if he screamed it loud enough he would actually believe it. Then maybe it wouldn't hurt so much.
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Date: 2015-08-08 10:08 pm (UTC)But it's not a reason to dampen those who still have that blessing in their lives. So she grins, holding Atka closer to herself and rocking him just enough that the baby starts to be lulled back into sleep.
"Hey, I won't promise not to get sick of either of you. But I can promise that I'll want you guys to stick around even during the worst of it. Avatar's honor," she says with a laugh, raising her hand in salute.