*Appears out of thin air* HEYO! I am so so so so sorry it has taken me like forever to get back to this. The past year and a half has been so hard on all of us, but before that I had a ton of personal stuff get dumped on me. But I'm here, I'm happy, I'm healthy, I got ENGAGED (WHAT?) and I am back to loving on Winn because we love him and he deserves the world. I have a lot of other fun ideas I want to write later on, (maybe we'll meet my Earth 1 Winn, Marvel Winn, Dark!Winn, I have tons of them) So I am super super excited to share my love for this boi with you. This is going to be the last chapter of Falling Through The Sky, but I can't say that this is the end of the verse because I don't know what's gonna happen in the future. I love every single one of you, and your reviews are what have me up at midnight the night before I work writing this last chapter because I just owe it to you and love and appreciate you all so much!
September 2018
James entering the hospital room threw Winn off. He was sure that James would never forgive him for leaving, that he had lost that friendship the second he stepped on the plane to New York. But here he was, in his hospital room that was on the other side of the country. Kara was almost as shocked as he was, but she also knew that they would both come around eventually. Lucas and Hannah had no clue who he was so they sat silently, but also secretly living for the drama that was unfolding in front of them. Besides the fact that Winn almost died, they didn't enjoy that part.
"I came as soon as I heard." The taller responded as he closed the door behind him, biting his lip before asking for privacy so the two could talk. Everyone gathered their stuff and went to wait in the hall. It left him with James alone and honestly, Winn didn't know what he was supposed to say. He felt awful about what he had done, and he knew that he couldn't blame James for being upset. Taking off and leaving your friends and family behind? That's exactly what he was pissed off at his mom for, and Winn had taken after her. And they were both related to his father. Which almost made it worse.
"You didn't have to." Was how Winn started his response, attempting to sit up before realizing that it was a bad idea. Instead, he stayed where he was and waited for James to take the seat by his bedside. "I mean, you do have an entire company to run, and I really messed things up when I left. And James, I'm so sorry. I was thinking selfishly, and it just, it wasn't fair to you."
The silence in the room scared him, Winn was sure that James was going to yell at him again and then leave and that was the last he was going to see of his former best friend/brother. They were so close before, both sharing their mutual love for Kara, but knowing James was the only one who had a shot. The anxiety rushing through his body, thoughts he couldn't control taking up space in his mind that he wished he could charge rent for.
James was the one who broke the silence next, sighing before setting a hand on Winn's arm. "I was angry, I didn't understand how you could just take off like that. And even now I can't wrap my head around it. But when Kara had called and said you had been taken, and then you had been stabbed. I just realized that no matter how angry I was, I couldn't stand the feeling of you dying without us trying to fix this."
They both knew it wasn't going to be immediate, that there were going to be boundaries set and time was needed to heal most of the wounds. But they were on a path to being okay. And Winn, well he couldn't ask for anything more than that.
September 2021
It had been 3 years since Winn had been kidnapped and nearly died. 3 years since his secret came out and he reunited with Kara and Alex. And he knew that it had been a long 3 years, that things had changed. He had a girlfriend, who he loved and was planning on proposing to. He had left Newsies about 6 months after everything had happened. Did a short run in Hamilton as King George, and then ended up sticking around in The Book Of Mormon where he currently played Elder Price. (Although he would have been an amazing Elder Cunnigham, but you take what you can get.) He was happy, life was good, Kara was out kicking ass as always, and even though the world felt like it was always ending, she managed to save the day and stop by after for pizza and game nights. He wouldn't trade it for the world.
I know it's short! But honestly I don't think there was a better way to wrap up the story than to have them makeup and have a little epilogue. I will probably be posting one shots in this verse every now and then. And I do instead to go back to writing for State Of Grace. But please feel free to tell me if you wanna see something about one of the other variants of Winn listed above. Feel free to catch me on my tumblr (forthewinn) for more Winn shenanigans as well! See ya on the flip side (is that how we be cool? Am I cool now for saying that?)