Authors Note - So this story is going to have two parts to every chapter. The current time set where Winn is on Broadway and another part on the events leading up to it. This is based very strongly on a verse I have on my blog on Tumblr, so I've had a lot of time to think about this verse and how I want to write it. There's a lot of backstory and so the chapters will be getting longer. This is just an intro to it. However updates are going to sporadic as I am currently living in China until the end of the year. So, let me know what you think and I would love to hear your ideas!
September 2018
Winn stood on the stage as he closed his eyes for just a moment. He thought back to the moments that brought him here. He wasn't supposed to be here, this wasn't his dream. No his dream was the girl he could never have. Maybe that's why he had to leave National City, maybe that's why he had to give up the life he had built for himself, at least long enough to build one where he could let go of the past. Of the things his father had done that reflected upon him, of his mother walking out on him, of the person he loved telling him they didn't feel the same way, of knowing that he was never going to be more than just the IT guy.
But all of that, he was able to push past. Or at least bury deep enough that he could ignore it most of the time. He missed National City every day, Kara, James, Alex, even Miss Grant, he missed them all more than he thought he could. But this was his life now and the moment he stepped out onto that stage he accepted the fact that things really had changed for him. He accepted that Kara and everyone else, they were going to find him. Because this was Broadway. And Broadway wasn't just a small show that most of the country ignored. No this was the real deal, and he was the lead. But he was ready to be found.
His cap was on and he was ready as the curtain began to rise, him lying across the metal platform from his friend Kohl who played Crutchie. This was it, he was ready.
January 2016
He was sitting at his desk when he watched Kara walk in. A smile on his face as she did so. Of course he would never tell her that he was in love with her. Because their friendship was everything to him. It was the best part of his life, without Kara he was sure that he would have given up a long time ago. But she was a light in his dark life, and he wasn't ready to lose that. Instead he would sit in the friendzone, and watch as time passed by. Watch as she fell harder and harder for James.
Still he couldn't help but listen to their conversation, putting in his own thoughts about Kara's superhearing before his attention turned to the sound of the TV. Someone turning it up, the headline being about Toyman escaping. His mind was suddenly back to the moment when he walked into work just hours before. When he found the doll sitting on his desk, how he thought to himself how it couldn't have been from his father. Because his father was back in prison. Because he was safe from the man who had not only given him life, but took it away from him.
Standing from his desk, Winn muted the TV before sitting back at his desk. Maybe he could just keep ignoring it. Maybe it would go away. But he wasn't that lucky, no why would he be? Nothing about his life was simple, nothing about it was easy. Instead the FBI came in, looking for him. "Winslow Schott Junior." The only part he needed to hear, the rest of it was out of his mind before it had even entered. They wanted to ask him about his father, and as soon as his name was said he knew he couldn't hide it anymore. All eyes in the office were on him. "That's me."