No-One But You (The Zephyr Endeavor) - Part 2
Chapter 97: Prince of Darkness (Part 7)
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The first thing Wade Wilson did when he reached his neighborhood was DESTROY THE SECURITY CAMERAS OUTSIDE HIS FRIGGEN HOUSE….
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He heard what that FUHHHKKING Stalker Council said about locating Ezekiel Stane there, and that shit was LAME AS FUCK.
The cameras were clearly owned by local police too, which was expected, but there was obviously some S.H.I.E.L.D. tech in the mix of that as well….
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Those fuckers. Wade mega glared at the cameras, and he made sure to flip off anyone looking as he got to his front door. He just flashed his middle fingers around in every possible direction, then he went straight for the door knob to let himself into his "gutter rat" house.
Gaspville. His front door was locked for the first time in like… a hundred years. Fuck, Wade had to scan around the front of his "yard" for the friggen key.
Well, he could have knocked on the front door… but the mercenary was kinda nervous. I mean, he knew that Ezekiel was in there, and he didn't wanna scare him.
Actually, he DID wanna scare him a bit… or surprise him by just showing up alive. Wade had to think that all over for a while as he looked for the spare key to his front door, because Ezekiel Stane was a special case…
Wade felt wayyyyy more protective of him, more than he had been with anyone else in a long long time. SO, the thought of scaring him kept filling the merc's busy mind, and he didn't like the notion at all.
He found his key underneath some dead plants at some point, then Wade let himself into his own house. He said a goofy hello and tried to make his presence known as soon as he popped his head in the door, but that greeting was met with a thick silence.
Not a creature was stirring, well, except maybe a mouse… but whatever. Wade closed the door behind him and walked further in.
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The quiet coyote finished his "awful" shower a while ago, but his mind was back to planning out a way to join Wade in hell. Ezekiel returned to that bottle of medicine, and he started reading over the side effects once again.
His sharp eyes were scanning all over the directions on the bottle. He wasn't raised to consume medicine… In fact, the young man never even needed it.
He grew up completely sheltered from the outside world, so do you think he ever got "sick" and was taught to rely on pharmaceutical medication? Yeah… just the opposite. His father never bought into all that crap, sooo…
The directions he read were… interesting, and Ezekiel was inspecting the "child-proof" lid. LOL. The directions to open the lid almost made him laugh, but then he heard something toward his right.
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No… Ezekiel heard someone enter Wade's home, and the voice that registered made the temperature in that bathroom drop like a rock. The baby Jackal heard Wade's voice, and he stood there in disbelief.
His body froze up, actually, and Ezekiel stood there silently until he heard Wade's voice once again…
Am I losing it? The quiet coyote thought… cuz there was no friggen way that voice was real. Ezekiel's sharp eyes were pointed toward the bathroom door, and his soul just about burst when he heard that voice for a third time.
This time he heard the word "Shiny" and all hell broke loose in his mind, body, and soul.
Ezekiel almost choked.
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He opened the bathroom door, and did a half-step out. Ezekiel thought his mind was playing tricks on him, or perhaps Victor Von Doom found him and decided to end his life after playing a cruel joke.
His mind went in all sorts of crazy directions, but all of those thoughts stopped once he saw …
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"Hey there, Shiny. Uhh, I know this must be weird, since no one has told you a damn thing. Personally, I thought that was a cunt move on the Stalker Council's part, but they SWEAR it was best not to throw a bunch of information at you right now. Yeah, uhh.. so, I'm clearly alive. Starknado did some nerdy shit, as expected, and I think I'm wearing Captain America's underwear, so, if you wanna get up on this… now is pretty much the best time ever."
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Uhm. Ezekiel listened to… that. He did his best to process the information shared, and he blinked in total silence until what he was seeing actually registered in his baby mind.
He tried to swallow down what was said too, and actually digest what just walked in the room.
Wade… was…
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The mercenary took advantage of that silent moment, and he used it to actually LOOK at Ezekiel Stane. His precious Shiny looked… horrified.
He looked depressed as fuck. Half-starved. Sleep deprived. What else? Wade realized that he hadn't physically SEEN Ezekiel's adorable body in… how long?
He was only showing himself to everyone as Zephyr. They really were back to square one, so Wade's face slipped down to a defeated frown after a ton of time went by…
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The last time he saw him without wearing ZEPHYR was at Steve and Tony's place back in Brooklyn.Jesus effing Christ.
Wade remembered that he FUCKING ditched him there too, to prepare himself for that bullshit fight with Victor Von COCK-SOCK….
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The temperature in the room turned WAYYYY the fuck up when Wade noticed something in the baby Jackal's hand too. Why the FUCKKK did he have a random bottle of pills?
That shit seemed SUS as fuck, so Wade reached over and snagged up Ezekiel's feathery soft hand. That gesture made the coyote gasp out loud, and his focus snapped just a little bit.
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He finally looked Wade in the eyes too, and it was registering that he was alive and actually there with him in the flesh.
Ezekiel's heart started feeling heavy. His head started taking on extra weight as well, until the mercenary brought up his OTHER HAND UP and loudly snapped two of his fingers.
It was a crisp, sharp SNAP…and it made the baby Jackal swallow down his thoughts once again.
The sharp sound "snapped" him out of some void…maybe, for a little bit, and Ezekiel quickly dropped the bottle.
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"I was going to join you, in hell. That's… what that was."
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The "jig" was clearly up, and Ezekiel Stane didn't even know what a jig was. It wasn't part of his vocabulary, but whatever… the look on Wade's face was burning a hole straight through Ezekiel's damaged soul.
Soooo much was fucking happening in that moment, so the baby Jackal gave up on understanding and he just pressed his face against the person in front of him.
Wade was wearing a crisp, clean shirt… but it wasn't that different from what he normally wore….
Chapter: END
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