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Title: Hospital
Author: [personal profile] dorksidefiker
Fandom: Marvel
Characters: Terry Ward
Prompt: Table 1/36. Sick
Word Count: 285
Rating: PG
Summary: Terry knows that his mother’s not going to be okay.
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.



Terry stayed with his little brother while his father took their mother to the hospital. Terry couldn’t have gone with them anyway, even if he’d wanted to. Even looking normal, his mother just kept screaming every time he came near, like that time the neighbor’s cat had caught a rabbit in the back yard; high and shrill and awful. He didn’t feel the tug to change around her any more, not since he’d become that thing. If it was because she had been scared mindless with fear or because he had become her worst fear, he had no idea.

“Mom’s coming back, right?” Billy asked, slicing through Terry’s thoughts with hopeful words. “It’ll be like Ms. Davis on the corner? They’ll give her some pills and she’ll be better. Normal again. Right?” He looked to Terry for reassurance, just like he always had. “Right?”

Terry found himself unable to meet his little brother’s earnest gaze. “Yeah,” he agreed. “Sure. Only with less… ongoing crazy cat lady-ness. Unlike Ms. Davis.”

“I like cats,” Billy grumbled. “I’d like to have a cat.”

They’d had a cat when Terry was little, but they’d had to get rid of it. Tigger had hated Terry with a passion; most animals did. Maybe they’d seen what Terry was before Terry had known himself.

“Grilled cheese for lunch?” Terry suggested.

“With pepper jack,” Billy insisted, clearly seeing that Terry was feeling guilty and planning to milk that guilt for everything he could get.

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