No-One But You (The Zephyr Endeavor) - Part 2
Chapter 15: Thuggish Ruggish Bone (Part 5)
When Wade Wilson laid both of his eyes upon Victor Strange the next morning, his eyes immediately determined that he had an evening that was cute, flufftastic, and easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
How fucking adorable. Actually, Victor looked almost too cute, too cuddly, and way too snuggly wuggly… so Wade almost didn't add any sugar to his coffee.
Just kidding. He made sure to pour that shit in for sure. The mercenary usually had a sweet tooth after he filled his evening with some super hot rage sex.
OH, HAWK BOY LOOKED SUPER CUTE TOO. Wade smiled and waved at him like a crazy person as he sat down beside Victor. They both were dressed all cute, and acting all cute, so Wade glanced down at his waist to make sure he was wearing pants.
Sometimes he forgot. Anyyy whoooo….
The archer studied Wade's weird behavior, and he said that they were going to explore Japan later on after breakfast. "They" meaning him and Victor, cuz duh, those two were obviously back together.
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"Cool cool cool. I think Ezekiel booked this place for like, a week, or something… so it will be open for you guys whenever you wanna go and come back."
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Ezekiel liked to give himself a week to recover from… stuff. Meh. That was all, simple shit. Wade actually shrugged his shoulders up when he spoke, then he flipped the pancakes and continued building a tower of them sky high.
He loved making everyone a fatty breakfast, and a smile crept over his face after a moment. Ezekiel was currently sleeping, and Wade started thinking about some… stuff. Someone there in the kitchen was actually paying attention, cuz Wade's face was saying a lot.
That "someone" was the one and only Victor Strange. He was officially the youngest in the bunch, so Wade maintained his playful demeanor whenever the baby wizard spoke out his thought..
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"Hey Wade, I've been wondering about something…"
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Oh? Wade stacked some more "flap jacks" on a plate, then he gave Clint Barton a giant pile of food. The archer accepted that food with a pleased looking grin. He loved food, so…
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"What's up, buttercup?"
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"How many times did you say you were married?"
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ACK. Wade almost dropped the hot frying pan down onto his toe. He caught it just in time tho, but the question immediately struck a nerve. OH YEAH, the merc confessed his filthy sins to Victor once before.
He was kinda sorta hoping that Ezekiel would be the one asking him about that… eventually, but that never seemed to play out or happen. The baby Jackal probably already knew the dirty details. Ezekiel was an expert at info-hunting and all that kind of shit, but Wade didn't mind explaining it to him… if… he… was… asked.
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"Uhhh, last time I checked… I've been married ten times. Most of those marriages were a sham tho, a legit rouse, and then the other majority of them were annulled. A couple wives stuck around for a while, then some of them… died, or it ended badly and a restraining order shortly followed…. so…"
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Anyone want coffee? Wade didn't ask out loud, but he silently pointed at the hot coffee jug. That information felt kinda hard to reveal for some reason, and Wade wasn't sure why the facts were suddenly hard to deliver.
Clint Barton couldn't believe what he heard. I mean, did Wade actually hear himself? Something like marriage was way too important for all that noise, so the baby archer didn't understand that sort of, lifestyle.
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Umm, Wade got kinda quiet. He wasn't a mind-reader or anything like that, but he could read the judgy expressions that often appeared on the faces of judgy people.
Marriage was actually important to him too, but he wasn't vey good at it. So… he slowly flipped a couple more pancakes, then Victor carried on with his clever little observation.
One might say he resembled his older brother in that moment, because the baby Strange sure "Sherlocked" something about Wade and Ezekiel's peculiar relationship.
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"So, did you marry Zeke? You're both wearing…rings?"
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OH THAT! Wade almost passed out and dropped the pan again, cuz he also forgot that they both were wearing those… fake.. yet totally real… wedding …. bands..
Uhhhhh… interesting. Wade tried to smile his way through the question, because a weird reality started settling somewhere beneath his skin. Self-doubt, insecurity, and a deep sense of self-loathing started swimming somewhere around Wade's bones, so…
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"That was, we were pretending for the Stalker Council, stuff. NO, not the Stalker Council, it was something church related. You missed that meeting…"
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Bird Boy knew all about it, so ASK HIM. Wade said only what he could, cuz the subject hit him in a way that kinda felt below the belt. I mean, the rings were all part of another "rouse" a sham marriage, or a sham engagement.
Wade wasn't sure how he was feeling, I meaaaannnn, he was happy to talk about his shitstorm of a life, but it felt kind of weird being asked about it by Victor. Ezekiel had a way of getting information through other people, and he's used Victor to ask about shit before, so… it just felt weird.
Wade didn't want to make the same mistakes anymore. He didn't want to psycho love bomb Ezekiel to the max, ask him to explain himself, then ultimately push him away.
But Wade felt how he felt. He loved wayyy too harrrddd, and now it felt like he was on the verge of doing what he always did in the past. The mercenary started thinking that maybe he needed to work on it, with some… help? Call him crazy?
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"We all wore wedding rings to infiltrate something called the Church of Human Potential. I had to wear one as well, but I took that thing off afterward."
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Clint Barton spoke up and saved the day, so Wade inwardly thanked him for that. The conversation was actually painful for the talkative mercenary, but it all eased up after a while.
Victor changed the subject to Nami Tamaki, and that altered Wade's mood immediately. He could talk about the concert for days upon days, so that put the easy peasy, lemon squeezy vibes back on track…
Chapter: END
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