A/N: So you know the vision-hacker in whatever season of Angel it was? Well, he was in the "Beer Bad" (season four) episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mhm. He played one of the guys that was drinking with Buffy. So I thought it would be amusing if I wrote a story about him as a vision hacker post-Beer Bad.
The Guy With the Large Exposed Brain
"Ugh."
Buffy was still recovering from yet another fun encounter with alcohol. It seemed that whenever she drank, she ended up in some sort of mystical situation that defied what she was supposed to be fighting: vampires. It was irritating, but also a little liberating. It meant that she wasn't the only one waging a war against the supernatural. There had to be other people out there fighting this sort of thing since they didn't hear about these things happening very often.
MEANWHILE, Gary sat in his kitchen, wincing as he took a Tylenol. God, did his head hurt. He knew that he shouldn't ever drink alcohol. Just taking a sip of it make his mind go haywire, and with as much as he drank, it was amazing that he was alive. He'd learned his lesson, though - he expected his head to explode at any second.
Finally the Tylenol started to work... a little. His head merely felt as if it were being pounded multiple times with rocks instead of being repetitively poked all the way through with swords and other pointy weapons.
What was that girl's name, anyway? Betty? Bunny? Who knew? Whatever. He probably would never see her again. He thought that she could be the one that would truly understand his brain, but clearly she wasn't. She was just another stupid, misguided college girl. She probably hated her roommate and changed her hairstyle every week, too and bought into all that vampire crap that was getting popular again. Gary would be willing to bet that she was in love with either Damon or Stefan Salvatore. She seemed to be more the Damon type, but what did he know?
Gary sighed and pulled the skin cap off of his head. Hidden beneath it was the brain that doctors and scientists around the world would give their souls for. It was the mind of a computer. It could process numbers at the speed of light, store infinite memories (though not while drunk, apparently), and go weeks without sleep. Most importantly, though, it had the ability to access other people's brains. Gary could control what they thought; what they saw. What they felt; how they responded to other people. He could change the person from the inside out - make them develop anorexia so that everyone in the world started looking like Holocaust victims. Gary was in control.
But he never used it for things like that. Gary wanted to be a pediatrician. He'd wanted to ever since his first visit to the pediatrician when he was a baby. Something registered when he saw Dr. Onsen standing there in the coat with the giraffe sticking out of the pocket. Gary wanted to help kids. To help people in general. His dream was to open a free clinic for the homeless and people that couldn't afford to pay for a doctor's visit. One that ran entirely on donations from outside parties that he got all the credit for.
Gary knew, though, that he never could. He couldn't be around children. Their limited knowledge of the world put intense stress on his brain. Whenever he talked to a child, his knowledge had to decrease so that he could speak on their level. It was excruciatingly painful and Gary knew that he couldn't live through that every day.
There was just one option left.
Ultimate evil.
