find a friend for the end – written by itsallanoxymoron for thekidthatcould
Summary: Their world might very well be ending, but he finds ways to show that he'll always care anyways. /Jausen/ The lives of two civilians in NYC during Loki's invasion.
Pairing: Jausen [JeremexKatey]; not necessarily OC's, as these "fictional characters" are entirely real
Katey Clausen's world ends not with a bang, but with a kiss.
Jereme Jackson's world does not end with a kiss, but with a bang.
i. They just needed a push in the right direction.
Act I
Their school is not located on the outskirts of the city, but rather right in the middle of it—overshadowed by Stark Tower and the city of gold itself. Overhills High School is located on the third and fourth floors—students complained about the view but the safety risks were less than what they could have been.
So when the alien army starts attacking, they are one of the first group of civilians to notice and evacuate. With such a large student body, however, it is easy to get lost.
Or run away, rather.
.
Act II
"Why are we doing this, again?" asks Jereme Jackson, never one to instigate rebellion. He is the wiseguy, full of jokes and smiles and laughs, unlike his counterpart—Katey Clausen, with her fire and her passion and her hard shell.
"If I'm going to die, I'm going to be having fun," she says simply, her voice rising because there is pandemonium in the streets.
The pair escaped from the school easily. They merely took the elevator—because Rule 101 in Alien Invasion Safety Tips is: Use the stairs. A car explodes half a mile away from them.
"I love you," he says. She doesn't hear it.
.
Act III
They're at an arcade—it's not exactly Dave and Busters, not really high end or anything, but at this point who cares? At the rate things are going, they could be dead by morning.
Most of the stores are falling into ruin. Jereme displays bravado for Katey's sake but she is utterly unfazed.
They don't know the whole story, but apparently some guy who looks like Tom Hiddleston—who Katey has an enormous movie-star crush on which Jereme tries unrelentlessly to make everyone forget about—is trying to take over the world. He was wearing a funny costume in the photo Jereme saw, but the scepter looks cool enough. It's a typical Hollywood plot, and he thinks it's all a conspiracy anyway.
The two of them are playing ski ball because it's just the thing to do when there's a war raging and it's one of Katey's favorites, so it's automatically his, too. He lets her win by default.
"I think I love you," he says when they finish and aliens have found the place. She kisses him. Hard.
He takes that as: It's about time.