#ticktocx

said:

"It took me a while but now i finally found you again... I am still very mad, yes I am indeed. So you and I will make amends with each other now, squirt! And when I am done with you, that Gunslinger is next" (for Jake and Roland)

Jake rolled his eyes. “Amends? For what? You’re the one who tried to kidnap me, not the other way around. So if anyone needs to make amends it’s you.”

“Don’t bother trying to reason with him, Jake,” said Roland. “He’s no smarter than he was the last time. And plug-ugly as ever.”

Not that Quick was really ugly. He was handsome enough, in a brutish sort of way. But vain as he clearly was about his authority, perhaps the vanity extended to his looks as well. Vain people often became angry at perceived slights, let alone outright insults.

And...angry people tended to make mistakes.

VIOLENCE/DEATH THEMED ASK MEMES/PROMPTS

Bill couldn't bring himself to look, keeping his gaze firmly on the ground instead. It was the first time Bill had come into contact with a member of the Pubes. Ticky had told him all about them - warned him about them. They were the reason Bill wasn't allowed outside alone, he said. Bill knew that wasn't true though - at least not entirely. He wasn't allowed out because they didn't trust him not to run away. Bill was important to them for some reason. He was young and they didn't get a lot of youngsters to train.

Tick Tock was not a man Bill wanted to mess with. He was intimidating at the best of times and quick to anger and that was with other members of the Grays. With someone he considered an enemy, he was much, much worse.

The evidence was at there feet, as much as Bill was trying to ignore it.

The boy tensed, almost jumping out of his skin at the sound of the voice. He’d thought everyone would be asleep – that was precisely why Bill had waited so long before attempting to leave.

He’d been in this strange new place – and by strange place, he meant world, because this wasn’t Earth – for less than a day after waking to a man prodding at him. Gasher, the man was called, and he’d come across as strange right from the start, but with nowhere else to go and nobody else around, he had gone with him.

What else could he do?

He might have faced off against a child-eating clown monster but he was still just a child. He couldn’t take care of himself, especially when he knew nothing about where he was. He didn’t know how he even got there, but he got the feeling the Turtle had something to do with it. It hadn’t taken long at all for Bill to decide he’d rather take his chances out there than stay with Tick Tock and the Grays.