Prompt: A character falls then continues to lie on the floor where they fell
ak47stylegirl wrote:
"Ummm, Scott, you're okay?"
The lengthy form on the floor groaned in response, which sounded oddly like 'just leave me, I welcome the void…'
(honestly, this is all I can write at the moment ?)
So I wrote this as a sequel
For ak47stylegirl (hope you don't mind :D )
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Alan frowned before stepping over to his big brother's side and crouching down beside him. "You sure?"
Scott's eyes were closed, but his eyebrows were meeting in the middle in a grimace that matched the groan. "'m'kay, Allie. Just watching the stars."
A blink and Alan looked up. They were out on the balcony, the sun was well up and the moon missing. It was past eight in the morning, after all. Still early for Alan, but positively daytime for Scott who was usually up before five.
Unless…
"You didn't go to bed last night, did you." He didn't even bother to phrase it as a question.
Scott grunted again, opened his eyes and squinted up at Alan. "'S okay. I'm fine." He rolled over and made to get up.
Alan grabbed his shoulder and nudged him back onto the hardwood.
"Wha-?" Dopey puzzlement was the only description.
But Alan didn't answer, just unfolding himself and lying down beside his brother.
The sky was startlingly blue when viewed from this angle.
"Alan, what are you doing?"
"Keeping you company."
"Why?"
"Because I happen to know that Virgil set his alarm for 8.15am this morning so he could speak personally with the supplier in California who sold us faulty parts that caused the incident with Two yesterday."
"Oh." A swallow. "What time is it?"
It wasn't as if Scott couldn't look at his watch, but he was obviously playing along.
"Eight twenty."
"Oh."
"Uh huh. You are toast, bro." And lucky that Grandma and Gordon were on the mainland overnight.
"So how does you lying on the floor next to me improve the situation?"
"Solidarity. He won't chew you out with me in the room."
That earned a grunt.
Alan shrugged. "It will delay him at least. Let him take out his pre-coffee fury on the guy in LA. He certainly deserves it."
"Guy's already toast. Business will be disassembled by tomorrow."
"What?"
"He endangered Virgil's life. It was safety equipment. I couldn't stand for that."
"So, you stayed up all night?"
But whatever his brother was going to say was interrupted by footsteps. Heavy booted ones unmistakably belonging to their engineer brother.
A head of dark hair appeared in Alan's peripheral vision.
"What's going on?"
Alan grinned up at Virgil. Red flannel, hands on hips and a pair of eyebrows scrunched up like a cartoon car crash.
"Have you ever noticed how blue the sky is, Virgil?"
That sent an eyebrow halfway up his brother's forehead. "Painted it enough, so yeah."
"It is just amazing and to think that beyond it is almost black."
Alan bit the inside of his cheek to hold back a grin at the puzzled expression on Virgil's face. It was obvious he knew something was up, but Alan was just acting weird.
"Scott and I were having a little big bro little bro time. So, if you will excuse us…"
Virgil's eyes narrowed at that and for a moment, Alan thought he had blown it, but his brother was so obviously not all there, he simply eyeballed Scott a second before grunting and wandering off in the direction of the kitchen.
Alan found Scott staring at him.
"What?"
But Scott just rolled his eyes and sat up with a groan.
Alan echoed him with considerably more energy. "You should go to bed."
That earned him a grunt as Scott pushed himself to his feet.
"Or I'll tell Virg."
The glare that hit Alan between the eyes only proved he had scored the required point.
"Fine."
There was further muttering but Scott poked at their father's desk for a bit before shooting another glare at his little brother and heading off towards the elevator.
Whether or not he would end up in bed was debatable, but then Alan wasn't going to push it. It was a miracle Scott had listened at all and it wasn't like Alan was Virgil and could physically put his big brother to bed whether he liked it or not.
It was only after Scott left that Alan realised he hadn't asked his brother exactly why he was on the floor in the first place.
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