Young Titans part I
Jul. 3rd, 2010 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorksidefikerTitle: Young Titans part I
Author/Artist:fullmetal_cute
Fandom: Amalgam (Kind of)
Characters/Pairing: Teddy Logan, William Rook
Rating: PG
Table & Prompt number: Table 4 | Bonus | 5. I just wanna laugh and love, I just wanna live it up. -- 'Six Foot Town' - Big & Rich
Summary: In which we are introduced to our merry band of heroes, and there is a bit of world building.
Author's note: Written for , with help from everyone from![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
youngavengers, especially ultra_maniac, who made some pretty pretty fanart.
Disclaimer: Y’know, this is kind of a weird area. The parent characters for this lot aren’t mine, but I’m the one putting them together like this… hrm.
Teddy Logan took several very quick steps back as William Rook spun around to face him, red cloak whirling around his ankles as his eyes flashed blue for a moment, and his lips pulled back in a snarl. The expression was gone almost as soon as it had appeared, replaced by the young man’s usual smooth, expressionless look. “I understand perfectly well,” William said slowly, “that you feel the need to be liked by everyone you meet. I wish that you would understand that this will not happen.” Another brief expression flashed across William’s face before he pulled up his hood, stalking away in a swirl of scarlet cloth. Teddy rubbed the back of his neck, worrying his lower lip with his teeth.
“I just want to make you smile,” he said, walking quickly to catch up with the sorcerer. A quick reshaping of his legs helped him keep up even as William walked faster. “You act like that’s a crime.”
“You are irritating and obnoxious and I want you to go away,” William snapped. “I do not think that there is any way for me to make this clearer!” Another one of those quick expressions flashed across his face, and Teddy felt a small thrill of triumph. It might not have been the emotion he wanted to see from William, but it was a show of emotion.
“And now you are being smug. Stop that, or I will zap you.”
“Anyway , Katie says we all need to go out and hit the city and do stuff. Emotionally connect and all that. And you’re not allowed to lock yourself in your room while we do it,” Teddy went on cheerfully.
***
Elijah Stone took a slow breath as he closed the panel on his arm, then finally looked around, hunting for where Katie was poking around. “That’s delicate!” he warned. He didn’t know what she was fiddling with, but he was absolutely certain she was fiddling with something.
“I know. I helped pay for it.”
Elijah tilted his head back and found the red clad girl perched on top of one of the intricate web of machines that kept him functioning. To be honest, he wasn’t even entirely sure what half the stuff did, though he was doing everything he could to learn about them. “So stop playing with it!”
“I’m not playing with it, I’m just sitting there.” She slid down, landing lightly in a crouch a few feet away. “Get your glad rags on, we’re going out.”
“Glad rags? Who says ‘glad rags’?”
“I do,” she said breezily, sweeping a hand over her close cropped black hair. “Anyway, going out, get ready.”
“By we, do you mean you and me,” Elijah asked, “or do you mean we as in the whole team?”
Katie was already walking to the door, doing that hip wiggle thing she did when she knew he was watching. “It was Teddy’s idea,” she admitted. “He doesn’t think Rook will take a step outside if we don’t all go together.”
***
“Diediediediedie!” Bart chanted, mashing buttons at super speed while Red Vision calmly, slowly tapped in combos. Bart had the speed and the reflexes, but Red Vision was even faster at processing than the white haired speedster. Which was why he was completely owning Bart the game. Both of them noticed when William silently came in, staying to the back of the room as he watched them. Sometimes, Red Vision wondered if he wasn’t more emotional than the mage, but a close study revealed that underneath the cool exterior, William felt things very deeply. Bart was, as with most things, the polar opposite. Everything he felt was right there on the surface, and he let most things go so easily.
“We are going out,” William finally said, slowly, as if tasting the words.
“Yeah, I know,” Bart said, not glancing away from the game. “It’s gonna be fun.”
[Cassie’s coming,] Red Vision added, secretly pleased. Despite his own efforts to draw her out, Cassie Kord remained frustratingly distant. Too much of Alex Richards in himself, too much damage done to her emotionally the last few years. The loss of her father at the hands of Anthony Lord, who had in turned been manipulated by the mad Arella Maximoff, then bonding oh-so-briefly with the time traveling Alex Richards, it had all been a but much for her. But she seemed to finally be warming up to him, and he could be patient.
Unlike Bart.
“You’rebeingallshmoopyorwhateveragain.”
[Very sorry.] Red Vision proceeded to demolish Bart very thoroughly.
***
Cassie listened to the Beetle chatter away in her head while her half-sister chattered away on the other side of the room. It was getting pretty easy to block them both out when she didn’t need to pay attention. After years of being an only child, suddenly sharing a room with her younger sister had come with a major case of culture shock. Truth be told, despite the fact that no one else could hear the beetle that had bonded with her, she found it considerably less irritating than Milegro most of the time.
Finally, after considerable debate between herself, her sister, and the scarab, she swept her dark hair up in a high pony tail. She asked the scarab to remind her when it was time for her to leave so she could make it back in time for her curfew, then let the armor engulf her. Milegro made a gagging noise, but Cassie knew that it was mostly for show.
***
“Maybe you’re coming on too strong?” Katie suggested. Teddy had retreated once more from the battle field, and was brooding in the general direction of William, who had somehow managed to find himself a quiet corner in the club. Katie put it down to William being able to project a near physical field of don’t-come-near-me-ness. “And I don’t think he likes being called Billy.”
“What’s wrong with Billy?” Teddy asked. “It’s a perfectly good nickname. William sounds too… formal. It’s all distant.”
Which, Katie thought but didn’t say, is what he wants. Personally, she agreed with Teddy that William needed to stop acting more like a robot than Red Vision and to start connecting with people. Her father did the distant thing, and the only thing that served to do was piss her off. Still… “Give him his space. He likes you, he’s just way too emotionally constipated to show it.”
Teddy gave her a sad, kicked puppy look, then sighed. “I need another drink.”
***
“He’s completely in to you,” Bart announced.
“A fact of which I am well aware,” William replied, watching as Teddy was stopped by a giggling girl exuding an air of excitement, asking the TV star turned super-hero to sign her cleavage. Teddy smiled good naturedly but without much interest and scrawled his signature on the girl’s skin with a sharpie before continuing his trek to the bar. The moment he stopped, people started congregating around Teddy. People liked Teddy. He was charming and handsome without having to really try. Hell, even William liked Teddy.
But William knew far too well how dangerous emotions could be. So he was not going to get emotionally involved with anyone, let alone Teddy Logan.
William knew exactly how Teddy felt about him; it didn’t take an empath to pick up on these kinds of things. Hell, Bart picked up on it, and most of the time William’s twin was as thick as two planks of wood. But that way lay madness, so William sat in his corner and watched Teddy watching him while trying not to be obvious, clearly forgetting that William could feel the heady mixture of sympathy, friendliness and lust radiating off him.
Author/Artist:
fullmetal_cuteFandom: Amalgam (Kind of)
Characters/Pairing: Teddy Logan, William Rook
Rating: PG
Table & Prompt number: Table 4 | Bonus | 5. I just wanna laugh and love, I just wanna live it up. -- 'Six Foot Town' - Big & Rich
Summary: In which we are introduced to our merry band of heroes, and there is a bit of world building.
Author's note: Written for , with help from everyone from
youngavengers, especially ultra_maniac, who made some pretty pretty fanart.Disclaimer: Y’know, this is kind of a weird area. The parent characters for this lot aren’t mine, but I’m the one putting them together like this… hrm.
Teddy Logan took several very quick steps back as William Rook spun around to face him, red cloak whirling around his ankles as his eyes flashed blue for a moment, and his lips pulled back in a snarl. The expression was gone almost as soon as it had appeared, replaced by the young man’s usual smooth, expressionless look. “I understand perfectly well,” William said slowly, “that you feel the need to be liked by everyone you meet. I wish that you would understand that this will not happen.” Another brief expression flashed across William’s face before he pulled up his hood, stalking away in a swirl of scarlet cloth. Teddy rubbed the back of his neck, worrying his lower lip with his teeth.
“I just want to make you smile,” he said, walking quickly to catch up with the sorcerer. A quick reshaping of his legs helped him keep up even as William walked faster. “You act like that’s a crime.”
“You are irritating and obnoxious and I want you to go away,” William snapped. “I do not think that there is any way for me to make this clearer!” Another one of those quick expressions flashed across his face, and Teddy felt a small thrill of triumph. It might not have been the emotion he wanted to see from William, but it was a show of emotion.
“And now you are being smug. Stop that, or I will zap you.”
“Anyway , Katie says we all need to go out and hit the city and do stuff. Emotionally connect and all that. And you’re not allowed to lock yourself in your room while we do it,” Teddy went on cheerfully.
***
Elijah Stone took a slow breath as he closed the panel on his arm, then finally looked around, hunting for where Katie was poking around. “That’s delicate!” he warned. He didn’t know what she was fiddling with, but he was absolutely certain she was fiddling with something.
“I know. I helped pay for it.”
Elijah tilted his head back and found the red clad girl perched on top of one of the intricate web of machines that kept him functioning. To be honest, he wasn’t even entirely sure what half the stuff did, though he was doing everything he could to learn about them. “So stop playing with it!”
“I’m not playing with it, I’m just sitting there.” She slid down, landing lightly in a crouch a few feet away. “Get your glad rags on, we’re going out.”
“Glad rags? Who says ‘glad rags’?”
“I do,” she said breezily, sweeping a hand over her close cropped black hair. “Anyway, going out, get ready.”
“By we, do you mean you and me,” Elijah asked, “or do you mean we as in the whole team?”
Katie was already walking to the door, doing that hip wiggle thing she did when she knew he was watching. “It was Teddy’s idea,” she admitted. “He doesn’t think Rook will take a step outside if we don’t all go together.”
***
“Diediediediedie!” Bart chanted, mashing buttons at super speed while Red Vision calmly, slowly tapped in combos. Bart had the speed and the reflexes, but Red Vision was even faster at processing than the white haired speedster. Which was why he was completely owning Bart the game. Both of them noticed when William silently came in, staying to the back of the room as he watched them. Sometimes, Red Vision wondered if he wasn’t more emotional than the mage, but a close study revealed that underneath the cool exterior, William felt things very deeply. Bart was, as with most things, the polar opposite. Everything he felt was right there on the surface, and he let most things go so easily.
“We are going out,” William finally said, slowly, as if tasting the words.
“Yeah, I know,” Bart said, not glancing away from the game. “It’s gonna be fun.”
[Cassie’s coming,] Red Vision added, secretly pleased. Despite his own efforts to draw her out, Cassie Kord remained frustratingly distant. Too much of Alex Richards in himself, too much damage done to her emotionally the last few years. The loss of her father at the hands of Anthony Lord, who had in turned been manipulated by the mad Arella Maximoff, then bonding oh-so-briefly with the time traveling Alex Richards, it had all been a but much for her. But she seemed to finally be warming up to him, and he could be patient.
Unlike Bart.
“You’rebeingallshmoopyorwhateveragain.”
[Very sorry.] Red Vision proceeded to demolish Bart very thoroughly.
***
Cassie listened to the Beetle chatter away in her head while her half-sister chattered away on the other side of the room. It was getting pretty easy to block them both out when she didn’t need to pay attention. After years of being an only child, suddenly sharing a room with her younger sister had come with a major case of culture shock. Truth be told, despite the fact that no one else could hear the beetle that had bonded with her, she found it considerably less irritating than Milegro most of the time.
Finally, after considerable debate between herself, her sister, and the scarab, she swept her dark hair up in a high pony tail. She asked the scarab to remind her when it was time for her to leave so she could make it back in time for her curfew, then let the armor engulf her. Milegro made a gagging noise, but Cassie knew that it was mostly for show.
***
“Maybe you’re coming on too strong?” Katie suggested. Teddy had retreated once more from the battle field, and was brooding in the general direction of William, who had somehow managed to find himself a quiet corner in the club. Katie put it down to William being able to project a near physical field of don’t-come-near-me-ness. “And I don’t think he likes being called Billy.”
“What’s wrong with Billy?” Teddy asked. “It’s a perfectly good nickname. William sounds too… formal. It’s all distant.”
Which, Katie thought but didn’t say, is what he wants. Personally, she agreed with Teddy that William needed to stop acting more like a robot than Red Vision and to start connecting with people. Her father did the distant thing, and the only thing that served to do was piss her off. Still… “Give him his space. He likes you, he’s just way too emotionally constipated to show it.”
Teddy gave her a sad, kicked puppy look, then sighed. “I need another drink.”
***
“He’s completely in to you,” Bart announced.
“A fact of which I am well aware,” William replied, watching as Teddy was stopped by a giggling girl exuding an air of excitement, asking the TV star turned super-hero to sign her cleavage. Teddy smiled good naturedly but without much interest and scrawled his signature on the girl’s skin with a sharpie before continuing his trek to the bar. The moment he stopped, people started congregating around Teddy. People liked Teddy. He was charming and handsome without having to really try. Hell, even William liked Teddy.
But William knew far too well how dangerous emotions could be. So he was not going to get emotionally involved with anyone, let alone Teddy Logan.
William knew exactly how Teddy felt about him; it didn’t take an empath to pick up on these kinds of things. Hell, Bart picked up on it, and most of the time William’s twin was as thick as two planks of wood. But that way lay madness, so William sat in his corner and watched Teddy watching him while trying not to be obvious, clearly forgetting that William could feel the heady mixture of sympathy, friendliness and lust radiating off him.