Day 13 - Cornered
A/N: Marty and Biff's struggle for the Almanac goes a bit differently. Set during Part II.
He shouldn't have looked.
He knew he should've just kept walking to the roof, and ignored what was going on inside the gymnasium.
After all, he had already seen it once before.
And despite having nothing to gain from it, he couldn't help himself. He'd caught a glimpse of his mother's dress in his peripheral vision as he'd walked past, and found himself powerless to resist the desire to relieve the moment.
Marty adjusted the brim of his fedora and squinted through the hazy glass, watching as his parents talked with his past self. The warm smiles his mother gave, the look of gratitude on his father's face; it was beyond surreal to view it all from this perspective, especially when he found himself fixated at looking at the back of his own head. I'm starting to see how people can say I've got dad's hair-
A sudden blast of hot air rushed down his ear. "KLEIN!"
Marty didn't have a chance to react before his collar was yanked violently, pulling him away from the gymnasium door and spinning around to find his face mere centimetres away from a thoroughly pissed-off Biff Tannen.
Oh shit.
Biff's chest heaved with exertion and rage, his powerful glare enough to make Marty's stomach drop. He clutched the leather of the smaller man's jacket fiercely, baring his teeth as he hissed at his prey. "You have a lot of nerve pullin' this sort of shit, Calvin Klein!"
Marty wasn't sure whether to be more stunned, annoyed or terrified of the situation he was now in.
The only thing that his brain could agree on was that he needed to get out of here now.
"Well?!" Biff shook him like a doll, his eye twitching with anger. "Well, Calvin Klein?!"
"L-Listen, I'm, uh, I'm not feeling' up to this right now. I-If you could just put me down and, uh, w-we can discuss this at school on Mon-"
The breath was evicted from his lungs when a fist violently collided with his diaphragm. He dropped to his knees and wheezed pathetically, only to be lifted from the ground as Biff wrapped his fingers around his throat. Alarm bells rang out in his brain as he desperately tried to pry the pressure away. Oh shit shit shit-
"We're discussing this now, punk!" Biff growled, beginning to squeeze the delicate flesh of Marty's throat beneath his fingertips. "You come in here thinking you're such a tough guy, stealing my girl and pulling off those dumbass stunts?!"
Marty could only respond with a wet garble; he was more occupied with trying to force air down his compressed trachea than with paying attention to Biff's shitty monologue. His legs swung in desperation as he tried to aim a kick at his attacker's groin, cringing as his toes missed their target. Gotta breathe gotta get Doc help Doc help-
"Are you listening to me, Klein?!" Biff screamed, seemingly oblivious to how Marty's eyelids had started to droop.
Listening?! Dude, I can't breathe!
Can't breathe…
Breathe…
Biff's profile began to look fuzzy.
Was there always a dark spot in his vision?
Doc…Biff…!
He gasped.
The concrete beneath his feet had suddenly appeared next to his face, the cold smoothness a welcome distraction from the searing fire burning in his throat. His body spasmed with a series of hoarse coughs. He tried to push himself to his knees, only for Biff's foot to come crushing down on his back, with enough force rippling through his torso that he was pretty sure a rib had cracked.
"Actually, I got a much better idea," Biff peered over him, his voice sounding garbled in his oxygen-starved state. "You're comin' with me, Klein. Let's settle this in my dominant."
You mean 'domain', dipshit…
Seemingly paralysed by the ordeal, Marty had no power to stop Biff from throwing him over his shoulder, the bony prominence sticking into his tender abdomen with each of Biff's steps. His attempts to shout for help resulted in nothing but a garbled squeak, and Biff only laughed as he tried to squirm out of his grip.
"Knock it off, Klein, or else I'll completely knock your brains out."
Marty's body sagged resignedly. Doc had better be watching this right now or I'm completely screwed…
