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the_rckTitle: From the Chalice of Their Common Need
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: T
Length: 11591 words in 4 chapters
Characters/Pairings: Will Stronghold, Ron Wilson, Jim Williams (Layla's father who is unnamed in canon), Ethan, so OCs
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Dark, Unreliable Narrator, Conspiracy, Family, Spies & Secret Agents, Grief/Mourning, Resistance
Notes: Fourth part of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion.
This one focuses mostly on what the people who weren't at Homecoming did afterward.
Summary: Ron didn't answer. He didn't address the subject again for several hours, not until they were sitting down to eat dinner. "You wouldn't be a general, Will," he said as he spooned a mix of stir fried broccoli, carrots, and onions onto Will's plate.
"I'm fifteen," Will replied. "I was never going to be. Maybe there's something, someday, that I'm good enough at for being in charge, but it sure as hell won't be because I can break walls." He was almost certain that Ron wouldn't have said as much as he had already unless he understood that about Will. "There's a place for breaking walls, but I have to trust the people telling me to do it." He'd have trusted his mother for that. He'd have trusted Mr Boy for that. It wouldn't have been because of having or not having powers. It would have been because of knowing and not knowing consequences.
From the Chalice of Their Common Need on AO3.
Title: Who Have Waited for Water
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: T
Length: 11499 words in 3 chapters
Characters/Pairings: Warren/Layla/Ethan/Zach, Magenta/Layla/Ethan/Jack, Barron Battle, Layla's father
Tags: Parent-Child Relationship, Family, Reunions, Alternate Universe - Dark, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ethical Dilemmas
Notes: Part 5 of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion. This is probably the end for the foreseeable future.
This story would be better balanced if it was longer, but I think it stands well enough as is, and I'm not sure what the next month or year will look like. Also, this series is half of what I've written this year. I'd like to work on something else.
Summary: The expression on Barron Battle's face told her that he was considering pushing, so she sighed. "Small powers do small things. Small things... It's a matter of leverage and targeted application of force."
In this case, it was simply that Sky High's doctor was more afraid of Layla than he was of Barron Battle. Layla'd told him what the cause of Stitches' death was, and he'd agreed.
Anything Layla did, after all, was natural causes. Zach claimed that Natural Causes was her proper super identity. Layla and Zach thought it was funny. Nobody else did.
Magenta supposed that Layla had to laugh because, otherwise, she'd look back at all of the moral lines she'd crossed and her heart would break. Layla wasn't as crazy or as broken as Magenta had feared she'd end up, but there was a thing she did where she put aside everything but necessity. Magenta thought that was worse because part of what Layla put aside was Layla.
Who Have Waited for Water on AO3.
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: T
Length: 11591 words in 4 chapters
Characters/Pairings: Will Stronghold, Ron Wilson, Jim Williams (Layla's father who is unnamed in canon), Ethan, so OCs
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Dark, Unreliable Narrator, Conspiracy, Family, Spies & Secret Agents, Grief/Mourning, Resistance
Notes: Fourth part of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion.
This one focuses mostly on what the people who weren't at Homecoming did afterward.
Summary: Ron didn't answer. He didn't address the subject again for several hours, not until they were sitting down to eat dinner. "You wouldn't be a general, Will," he said as he spooned a mix of stir fried broccoli, carrots, and onions onto Will's plate.
"I'm fifteen," Will replied. "I was never going to be. Maybe there's something, someday, that I'm good enough at for being in charge, but it sure as hell won't be because I can break walls." He was almost certain that Ron wouldn't have said as much as he had already unless he understood that about Will. "There's a place for breaking walls, but I have to trust the people telling me to do it." He'd have trusted his mother for that. He'd have trusted Mr Boy for that. It wouldn't have been because of having or not having powers. It would have been because of knowing and not knowing consequences.
From the Chalice of Their Common Need on AO3.
Title: Who Have Waited for Water
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: T
Length: 11499 words in 3 chapters
Characters/Pairings: Warren/Layla/Ethan/Zach, Magenta/Layla/Ethan/Jack, Barron Battle, Layla's father
Tags: Parent-Child Relationship, Family, Reunions, Alternate Universe - Dark, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ethical Dilemmas
Notes: Part 5 of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion. This is probably the end for the foreseeable future.
This story would be better balanced if it was longer, but I think it stands well enough as is, and I'm not sure what the next month or year will look like. Also, this series is half of what I've written this year. I'd like to work on something else.
Summary: The expression on Barron Battle's face told her that he was considering pushing, so she sighed. "Small powers do small things. Small things... It's a matter of leverage and targeted application of force."
In this case, it was simply that Sky High's doctor was more afraid of Layla than he was of Barron Battle. Layla'd told him what the cause of Stitches' death was, and he'd agreed.
Anything Layla did, after all, was natural causes. Zach claimed that Natural Causes was her proper super identity. Layla and Zach thought it was funny. Nobody else did.
Magenta supposed that Layla had to laugh because, otherwise, she'd look back at all of the moral lines she'd crossed and her heart would break. Layla wasn't as crazy or as broken as Magenta had feared she'd end up, but there was a thing she did where she put aside everything but necessity. Magenta thought that was worse because part of what Layla put aside was Layla.
Who Have Waited for Water on AO3.
