#cracked shell

Summary: There's that wonderful moment when subsurface cracks start to make themselves known and the alarm goes off alerting that action needs to be done. It's truly remarkable to watch as the systems designed for such an occurrence do their job so efficiently. Well what happens when the cracks have gone undetected in an underdeveloped system and it only takes a slight breeze for it all to tumble down? All hell breaks loose and the many few scramble to pick up the pieces. Guess which happened to young Kakashi.

Thank you!!

Well, Two Birds on a Live Wire is another disaster twin fic!

In it, Leo and Donnie go on a mission together and end up trapped as the building falls around them. (I seem to have an obsession with cave-ins. Hmm.)

Below the cut is more details because it's a bit graphic and people may not want that angst so obviously on their dash.

He was tired. Tired of putting on that same face day in, day out. It had only just hit home with how much work and pressure it took to hold it up, and Julian couldn't deal with it for much longer. He was so surprised that it had lasted this long. 7 years of putting on a fake persona, just to get his way. And it had finally became too much.

Julian slumped down on his bed, throwing his bag across the dorm. He put his head in his hands, and sat down, thinking about the awful things he had done. Insulting everybody, being ridiculously arrogant, hating muggles. Julian didn't want to do any of that. The amount of times where all he wanted to do was say 'I am so sorry' or 'I really didn't mean it, please forgive me' were too many to count.

As he kept thinking deeper, his mind wandered to his parents. He was and would always be the least favourite child. The horrible burning sensation he got whenever he saw them was sparked off at school, ending in harsh, abrupt comments and arrogance flying everywhere. Even at home, as far back as he could remember, Julian wore this façade as a disguise. His parents both believed that Julian was truly happy about how he he was acting, but had no clue about the hurt he felt from his actions. His siblings couldn't care less, they were as arrogant and conceited as he pretended to be, but his parents liked them all more than they did for him.

However, family wasn't the only thing Julian cared about. The reactions from the other students were also what he feared. Most students feared him, some detested him, and one or two could actually tolerate him. He worried that they'd call him a 'pussy' or 'weak', just so he could be who he wanted to be. He showed this side to Dominique. The only person in the entire school who knew the real Julian. She accepted why he acted like it, and liked the nice side of him. But he couldn't show the whole school, no way. The humiliation, the shame, the bullying that would happen would be too much to handle.