#dolls!

I'VE WRITTEN A NEW THING!!!

(and I guess an Ao3 link if you don't want to go on cool websites)

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This shouldn’t have happened. He’d tried so hard to not let this happen. He knew better than most how Black Badge could use someone. So many people casualties of experiments that hadn’t been stable.

He thought when Black Badge had packed up from the area, maybe both of them would finally be out from under the organization’s thumb. He should have known better. You don’t just get away from Black Badge.

But Jeremy, with his powers, was the first to realize they’d come back. And he’d known the team couldn’t afford Black Badge interference at the time. He’d given himself over to buy them time to sort out the threat they’d already been dealing with, free of BBD. His hands curled at his sides.

Really they should have noticed him acting strange, slipping away. But tensions had been high, and you missed things under stress. If Bobo hadn’t followed Jeremy, Dolls wondered if they would have even had any lead about where he’d disappeared to. He didn’t even like entertaining the thought.

Jeremy had never been a great liar, though Dolls sometimes wondered whether he only wanted people to think that. He was deceptively good at deflecting conversation away from himself. Jeremy never spoke about his powers, and if not for the file on his mother Dolls might not even know as much he did.

When he’d freed a traumatized child from a car wreck 12 years ago he hadn’t expected Black Badge to take an interest in the kid. But then he’d barely been an adult himself at the time. He knew better now. Why he’d been sent that way in the first place. It wasn’t a coincidence.

BBD had been tracking Jeremy’s mother, but with her dead… They took what they could get. He’d clung just as tightly to him back then as he had when they’d carried him from Black Badge a few weeks prior.

A few weeks. It had taken them just as long to find him, too long.