No-One But You (The Mystic Consultant) - Part 2

Chapter 10: The Tiger Striped Cat (Part 10)

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Ezekiel Stane inwardly thinking that Victor Strange still seemed "affected" was a pretty big understatement. It was beyond clear to everyone that the baby sorcerer was visibly affected by what had transpired before the dysfunctional group had dispersed. Victor straight up had his hands covering the bottom half of his face.

He told his older brother that he was doomed, twice. Maybe he said it three times. Victor wasn't sure. Truth was, a hefty "Lesson in Love" punched him right in the gut when he saw Ezekiel, and the baby Strange was hurting bad. So much so, he actually apologized to his kind-hearted boyfriend before he went back up to his nest.

Victor managed to grab Clint Barton's wrist before he went too far. He looked at him, dead in the eyes, and he simply said, "I'm sorry."

He was sorry. Beyond sorry and Victor felt friggen cruel. The archer didn't hesitate when Victor looked at him. He saw his face and he knew what the apology meant. The baby archer held onto any sort of response for the moment. He did look over at Stephen Strange tho. The "field agent" gave the Sorcerer Supreme a small smile, then he made a small gesture with his free hand.

Victor recognized the gesture, and he knew that the archer was answering the apology by using sign language. His friendly boyfriend did that sometimes, more so when he was "working" or unsure how to respond.

The gesture Clint made using sign language meant, "It's ok", then he made his way up to his nest. Victor watched him leave, then he super stared at his brother. DOOMED DUDE. DOOMED. Victor quietly said that he felt like he was about to throw up, but Stephen's focus went more toward the incoming crowd.

Tony Stark had a herd of fans that were suddenly piling in. Victor and Stephen were standing in the direct center of the massive space. They let everyone migrate around them, because the two of them were standing in that location for a very specific reason. The floor had a bit of a "dip" to it, in the center. That meant, all the massive waves of energy that was about to fill the space around them would be circulating them more than the energy would have in another spot.

They were in the sweet spot to pick and choose bad vibes. Victor's focus was shit of course, so Stephen was there to happily pick up the slack. He cared for Tony, and he was also interested to see how his little music endeavor had developed. A bit of distraction built up within Stephen as well, because something started going on behind him.

Things were moving around on the dark stage and people started freaking out. Stephen tapped his baby brother's shoulder when he saw some additional movement. Victor kind of snapped out of it, and he did his best to not look up toward his left. Ezekiel was parked up there and he seemed a bit too comfortable.

The baby Strange thought about turning around and looking more behind him. His focus on that began to strengthen, because he knew some loud mouth jerk was camped out toward the back of the audience. Wade Wilson was up there in the nose bleeds, but he could see Victor. The quirky mercenary even gave him a giant wave when Victor's eyes migrated in his direction.

Victor wanted to flip him off. Actually, he wanted to hurl something at his head or cast him off toward oblivion again. Wade could definitely see all the animosity that was going on with the baby wizard. Wade relished in it for just a bit. He smiled beneath his mask and he even blew sweet Victor a gentle kiss.

The sarcastic gesture was met with a flare of rage. Victor tensed up pretty quickly, but his brother stepped in front of that path.

Stephen pointed north and the expression on his face clearly meant that Victor needed to focus. The baby Strange drew in a deep breath and he forced himself to turn around.

Fuck Wade Wilson.

There was some additional movement going on, plus some sounds were even chiming in.

Victor was already aware of Tony Stark being a friggen rock star. He pretty much worshiped Tony, so Victor was stoked to see him up on some stage, doing something cool and crazy.

It helped him forget about, stuff...

Chapter: END

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