the girl who kins vampires and eroticizes blood and bruising and has an oral fixation is really weak to being bitten and everyone acts so surprised. whateverrrrr hmph
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Pet peeve: werewolf stories where bones crack and knees bend backwards. Wolf legs don't work like that. They're just standing on their toes. C'mon, this shouldn't be complicated.
My first ttte fic written in about two decades and it's Gresley Brother angst because of course it is . I am not immune to what Mattel robbed from us when it comes to The Great Race, and like many others have decided to replace Canon with my Superior Canon.
Anyway let's a go
He had known something was terribly, terribly wrong when he caught sight of Gordonās face, flushed red as he ran beside him. But Gordon, his proud, stubborn, dearest brother had pulled ahead in stark defiance of Scotsmanās concern, unconcerned with the strip of metal that tore itself free, spiraling through the air and cutting into Scotsmanās face just above his right eye.Ā
If only it had ended there.Ā
āGordon!ā
Scotsmanās cry ripped itself raggedly from his tubes as he watched, frustratingly, infuriatingly, heart-crushingly powerless as his brother exploded. His boiler ballooned outwards, straining against the casing. A muted, bwoom slammed against the air like thunder, so close that Scotsman could feel it rattle his teeth and tubes and pistons. Superheated air slammed into him with enough force to almost knock him back, and hot enough to scorch even his metallic skin and evaporate the tears in his eyes. He remained firmly upright on the rails, although the impact reverberated painfully throughout his entire body.Ā He rushed to the steaming wreck that was his brother, his own damages be damned. āGORDON!!ā
āJesus,ā His Fireman breathed out in a hoarse whisper. āDo you think his crew managed to get out alive?āĀ
āWe don't even know if the engine is still alive.ā His Driver returned grimly, slowing Scotsman to a much more controlled stop, something Scotsman would have to thank him for later..Ā He didn't want to continue this⦠this farce of a race anymore, and he would have fought if man and machine weren't of the same mind. Ā It would have gone against everything that had been -literally and metaphorically- hammered into him since the day he was built. Obey his crew. Follow the orders of the humans who gave him life. Represent the Gresley Legacy the way He expected. Open defiance -especially fighting over controls- was indignity of the highest caliber. But maybe such a barbaric disregard for The Law would have woken Gordon up, the sheer audacity dragging him back to consciousness explicitly to scold Scotsman like he was still that bright-eyed young engine, newly steamed up boundlessly excited. It would have been preferable to this.Ā
Dread clogged up his tubes and coated the inside of his boilers like sludge as he looked over his brother. Steam billowed up almost lazily from between the cracks in his streamlined casing, warped and bent out of shape from the heat and pressure. More plates had since been blown off, but there werenāt any visible tubes. That factĀ offered very little comfort as Scotsmanās eyes lingered on a bulge right above his running board.Ā His previous Driver had let him watch movies once or twice, and he had seen films where humans desperately held their innards in with their arms. If Gordonās streamlined casing came off, would everything come spilling out the way they did in those movies?Ā It was a ridiculous thought (if he was going to burst, he was going to burst. Such flimsy, pathetic streamlining wouldn't have stopped it), but it stuck in his smokebox like someone had jammed a rock in there.Ā
On the track on his other side, Spencer chugged forward, grinding to a near halt as his eyes scanned over Gordon. A cavalcade of emotions flashed across the Silver Jubileeās face -horrorĀ and shock and something that could have been sorrow, but it passed too quickly. The A4 gave Scotsman a look before tearing his gaze away from the brothers, focusing on the rails as he bolted down the line.Ā
Driver and Fireman climbed out of his cab, Fireman deftly walking across his running board and coming to a stop by Scotsman's smokebox.Ā He rested a comforting hand against the metal and gave a weak smile.Ā
āMichael, go down the track and see if you can't find the crew,ā Driver called. āIām going to try and get a closer look.ā Under his breath, although Scotsman could hear as clearly as a bell, he added: āGod willing I don't find a pair of flash-fried corpses.ā Fireman -Michael- gave Scotsman another firm pat against his smokebox before climbing down and jogging in the opposite direction.Ā
ā....How bad is it?ā Scotsman hedged after what felt like an eternity. Driver scratched his beard with a sigh.Ā
āHeās still too hot to get a good look, but from where Iām standing? His cab is fucked, and God only knows what his boiler looks like under that casing.ā He took off his cap to rake his fingers through his thick, curly black hair. āWe won't know how bad it is until some engineers take a look at him. It could be just as bad as it looks, it could not be as bad as it looks.ā Driver sighed and kicked a chunk of ballast.Ā āI just donāt know, Old Boy. As a small mercy I didn't see anything that looked like a body, so his crew must have managed to jump out.āĀ
Scotsman let out a relieved sigh. Small mercies indeed. There had been enough tragedy for the day. Ā After a few moments the two of them heard another engine. Spencer was carefully reversingĀ towards them, a single carriage coupled up to him. He still couldn't look Scotsman in the eye as he came to a stop beside him. One of the windows opened, and a severe-looking woman with mousy brown hair stuck her head out- the head nurse of the on-site medical team.
āWhere are NWR No.4ās crew?ā She asked.Ā
āNot in the cab, thank Christ. I sent my Fireman down the line to find them. They should be easy enough to spot, provided theyāre still in their uniforms,ā Driver replied.Ā Ā Ā
Spencer puffed away shortly after, leaving a single person behind. The Fat Controller walked over to Gordon, hat clutched in a white-knuckled grip. When Scotsman had first met The Fat Controller, he was reminded of Alan Pegler. Alan didn't have the same head for business, and had dreams much larger than what his wallet could accommodate, but both were charismatic gentlemen who deeply loved railways and their engines.Ā The favorable comparison turned to ash as Scotsman watched The Fat Controller trundle towards his brother. Someone ordered Gordon to be streamlined (and not even properly into an A4. Mallard had grown insufferable in her age, and Spencer had the most biffable face ever molded, but neither of them had exploded while going at speed, now had they?), or at least convinced Gordon that it was what he wanted. There was only one man on all of Sodor who had that kind of power, and it was the man who had the audacity to look mournful.Ā Ā
āWhy did you do it?ā Scotsman asked, the venom in his voice potent enough to make both human men jump. āMake him get such ⦠piss poor streamlining work done?ā Smoke and embers hissed through his teeth as he glared down at the guilty party.Ā
āHe asked to be-ā The Fat Controller began in a voice smaller than a childās.Ā
āBullshit.ā Scotsman fired back, spitting cinders onto the ballast. If Driver reprimanded him for his crassness, it fell on deaf ears. āI haven't seen my brother in decades, and even I know he would have never agreed to this. If you wanted him to be faster, you could have rebuilt him into an A3, like the rest of our A1 siblings. At least then he would have retained some dignity.āĀ The Fat Controller looked up at him, mouth flopping open and closed pathetically. He heaved a sigh and all but shriveled up under the intensity of the engineās glare.Ā
ā... You're right. I have no excuse.ā He admitted. He struggled to look towards Gordon's slack, unmoving face, recoiling further into himself at the express engineās corpse-like stillness. āMy pride very well might have-āĀ
āDo not finish that thought.ā Scotsman hissed. Saying it out loud would make it real. It would make Gordon's face crumble to ashes and rust and heād be well and truly gone.Ā Ā
āAlright, alright,ā Driver interjected, standing between the engine and the Controller, hands held up. āBeing angry and wallowing in self pity won't fix this. Scotsman, let's go back to the showgrounds, turn around, and come back so we can pull him to a workshop. You, er- um-āĀ
āStephen Hatt.āĀ
āRight. Stephen. You probably need to make a few calls, aye? Come along with us.āĀ
The Fat Controller kept looking at Gordon. āIf itās all the same, Iād rather not leave him alone.āĀ
ā...Okay.ā Driver walked back to Scotsman and climbed into the cab. āCool your fire,ā He commented, re-raking the coals before coaxing the engine forward.Ā He thundered down the line as fast as Driver would allow, forcing out every thought that twisted its way into his smokebox and roiled through his boiler that wasnāt āGet Gordon somewhere safe.ā Ā He roared into the showgrounds and came to a screeching stop on the nearest turntable,Ā staring coldly at the operator as Driver explained the situation.
āFlying Scotsman, whit in th' world happened?ā The North Western Railwayās Sterling Single called out to him as she puffed towards the turntable. āWe heard an explosion oan th' racetrack, whaur is?-ā With a sharp click Scotsmanās smoke deflectors came forward, blocking the old engine from view as the turntable finally got him facing the right way.Ā He sped off, heedless of the Sterling whistling after him.
āEasy, easy.ā Driver coaxed, rubbing small circles into the outside of Scotsmanās cab. āWeāll get him somewhere safe.ā
When Scotsman returned to Gordon, he hadnāt woken up. His face was just as slack as he had last seen, his brows still twisted in agony. Now that they were both on the same track, however, Scotsman could hear low, shallow breaths puffing from his smokebox. Still breathing, thank God, or The Lady, or whichever deity had been overlooking this tragedy. The Fat Controller was sitting on the sides, head buried in his hands. He could stay there forever as far as Scotsman was concerned. Unfortunately, Driver insisted that he ride in his cab once Gordon was securely coupled.
The drive back to the showgrounds was considerably slower than the rush to get there. Every so often something metallic would clatter onto the rails that Scotsman hoped and prayed and pleaded was just more of that horrible casing, and not his brother falling apart. He could hear each rattle and groan of metal that came from Gordon's body, each one screeching against his nerves like wheels trying to work through years of rust and grime. The tubes directly behind his smokebox felt as though they had been twisted into a tight knot. Breathing made it worse, like he was inhaling shards of glass and dirt rather than clean air, but he had to keep going. He had to keep breathing. Keep breathing, keep breathing, keep breathing. When the sun rose tomorrow morning, he might be the only Gresley who still was.
As Scotsman puffed onto the showgrounds, a sharp gasp assaulted his senses.
āHoly shit, Gordon!ā It sounded like that little red tender engine that had been one of Sodorās two entries in the Best Decorated Engine Parade. His horrified cry alerted his fellow North Westerners, who swarmed around Scotsman like starving carnivores circling a carcass.
āWhat happened?!ā
āWis he th' explosion we heard?!ā
āHeās⦠heās not dead, is heā¦?āĀ
Ā Ā
Scotsman ground his teeth so hard he tasted metal shavings. It took every ounce of dignity and self restraint learned over decades of service for him to not snap at the school of piranhas following after him. To not shoot cinders from his funnel and bellow fire from his mouth in a display of the infamous Gresley Engine Temper so grand, so raw and animalistic in it's fury, it would send these smaller engines scampering away like rabbits. But such an explosive show of emotion would rattle Gordon, possible cause him to crumble apart entirely. Scotsman swallowed down the rancor burning just as hotly as the coal in his firebox and pressed on. Ā
The organizers of The Great Railway Show had the wherewithal to host the event not terribly far away from Crewe. Scotsman puffed inside carefully, his attention immediately drawn to the tank engine suspended above the workshop floor with some cranes. He recognized him as the little tank engine he had spoken with at Sodorās Big Station, the alleged E2 with the proportions of a Jinty; Thomas, was it? Whatever his name, the poor lad had definitely seen better days, paintwork scratched to high heaven, boiler dented and buffers bent. His wheels had been removed, and Scotsman sucked in a breath at the sight of the deep cracks across his frame and chassis. When Thomasās gaze shifted from Flying Scotsman to Gordon, his eyes flooded over with tears.
āI was too lateā¦ā He choked out. āV-Victor told me about his safety valve, and I- and I- and I tried to get here as fast as I could to warn him. My Driver told me not to, but I tried to jump the bridge because I didnāt get there before it started raising, butĀ then I- but then- I damaged myself so badly I couldnāt move and now- now Gordonāsā¦!ā He gulped in a mouthful of air and wailed. āIām so sorry!āĀ Scotsman wasnāt sure which of the two Thomas was apologizing to, but his howling shot through his boiler like a bullet from a rifle.
āHey, hey. Itās okay.ā Scotsman attempted in what he hoped was a soothing tone (if Great Northern were here, she would know exactly what to say. But she was gone. All that was left was Flying Scotsman the Showboat).Ā āEven if you did get there in time, what would you have done?ā
āI⦠I donāt knowā¦ā Thomas sniffed. āDriven onto Gordonās track so he couldnāt go?ā
āDo you honestly think that would have stopped him?ā Scotsman slowly eased Gordon into an open spot on the workshop floor. āDidnāt he once pull you halfway across your island while you were coupled to his train?ā
āHow didā¦? Youāve read the books about our railway?ā
āThe daughter of my first private owner, Penny, loves the books written about you all.ā The barest hint of a smile crossed Scotsmanās face. āWhen I was resting for the winter in Texas, all the way in America, sheād come into my shed each and every night to read me those stories.ā He hummed fondly, although the joy was quickly snuffed out as the workman shooed him away from Gordon so they could assess the damage. He looked up at the little tank engine. āI also know my brother.Ā Unfortunately parking yourself in his way wouldnāt have been enough to stop him.ā
Thomas sniffed again, blinking away a fresh wave of tears from his eyes.Ā ā...Do you think heāll be okay?ā
Yes.
No.
Maybe?
If he does wake up, thereās no guarantee heāll be able to run again. Being forced into preservation as a static display would kill him just as surely as any boiler explosion.
Lady, Anyone,Ā please. If youāre listening, please donāt take my big brother. He's all I have left! Save him like you saved me, please!!
Scotsman gave Thomas a winning smile. āOf course he will be.ā
Thomas didnāt look entirely convinced, but seemed willing to take anything he could. Scotsman eased himself into a siding, firmly telling Driver that heād be staying at Crewe for the night. He didnāt get much sleep, andĀ in the brief moments he was able to dream, he returned to the yard at Doncaster, stargazing with Great Northern and joining in her teasing of Solario, while Gordon and Sir Frederick watched from a respectable distance, bemused at their siblingās antics.Ā Ā
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