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my usual guys: qh43, jh86, lh43, minn wild + occasional devils and sharks - i don't perceive many/any outside of these three teams.

qh43 | jh86 | lh43 | nh13 | mc71 | kk97 | bf7 743 | 4397 | minnycule (7124397) | hughes brothers

will not write or reply about: mcd, underage, pregnancy (including mpreg), kid-fic, heavy/detailed descriptions of blood. if i don't reply within 3 days without forewarning, i have probably deleted the ask for personal reasons.

i think i've got my internal conflict + my general plot... i THINK ! i'm going to have him starting at a very low point, a couple years after a Bad event. said bad event involving an old mentor who sort of throws him to the wolves after [scandal/event], so quinn is kind of outcasted and shunned from the bigger cities with magic. his 'vancouver' move, so to speak, and he ends up across the country and alone and lacking a lot of magic and resources. he gets by kind of on what he's got + hoodwinking (just a little), kind of posing like any old tarot reader. meanwhile jack + luke seem to be building themselves up with a great organisation of magic involving nico, kind of have the world in comparison, the worst thing going for them is that quinn's kinda stained the family name etc.

enter: brock faber, who's knocking on his door being like my best friend [mb12] is cursed and i need your help. and quinn's like absolutely not you've got the wrong guy. and brock's like nope, jack sent me here.

and thus begins a back-and-forth of quinn trying to deal with this insistent new guy who definitely has magic of his own, his annoying best friend who is cursed to hell and back, and the fact that jack and luke have stopped listening to him say no goddman visiting or associating with me when you've got your own business to worry about jfc

"No," Quinn grits out. It spills out from him, sharp and messy. Pieces that scrape on the way up, bloody and hurting.

the rest of the pack feel panic, most of all. which, coming from quinn, they have literally never felt. quinn has never panicked in games, he's never panicked in front of the media, they don't even feel it when quinn pats down his pockets and realises he's left his phone somewhere. but panic's a big emotion, and quinn's already lost his grip on things from the very start of the conversation, and the way it ripples through their bond is very, very strange and alarming. it's also, like, a subconscious resistance that's very strong as well, like the bond has its own defence system that spikes up the moment it thinks it feels something that might hurt it. it's basically a big red alarm saying no no no, and the pack immediately jump on that, re: heads go straight for quinn. even jared being right there isn't quite enough to get them to chill out immediately and leave it in his hands.

but the second time in the med bay, quinn's body has totally shut down the other pack (final stages and chances of getting the other pack), and therefore the wild pack actually don't feel anything at all. jared gets... little tiny droplets of them, but quinn's totally shut off from them. they feel spurge's panic moreso, and that's the best indication they have about how things are going in that room. spurge is usually really good at keeping himself level, but his anxiety is so high the entire time that everyone's on edge.

i failed to mention this in the fic LOL but jared relays pieces of info back to the team. mostly because he doesn't know what will come through the bond (no one's really ever had to share a guy in the pack before, will devils bleed through quinn into the pack? no one knows), so he kinda gives them a... very vague head's up while quinn's out. when quinn's up and walking again, he very much encourages quinn to tell the team the entire story asap because they're got pieces but not the entire puzzle etc.

and yesss the thing with two bonds is that quinn can no longer keep patching up the leaks LOL, everythingggg starts bleeding through. he's throwing rocks everywhere. so when vancouver kinda comes into question, everyone turns to look at quinn because they can feel that reaction and the response. the good news is they can also feel how much quinn wants to stay w/ minny and loves them so. there's that side of things too!