“Hell” // blissey on ao3
Excerpt:
Robbie expected Hell to be a burning place, full of vats of sin and bubbling flesh. Flames would lick at him, and the Rider would come out and blend in completely. What he didn't expect was this tundra - this frozen landscape, with barebones cabins hidden in the wood, full of prying demons and sinners with too-curious eyes and echoing voices.
Time doesn't really pass in Hell, or maybe it passes all at once - anyway, when Robbie's been there for a week or so he gets why it's cold here. It's the kind of cold that creeps into your bones, the joints groaning and your teeth clattering. He's cold to the core and he's lonely and miserable and he hates to say it but the best parts of his days are when the Rider takes over and Robbie Reyes gets a nap.
The dreams he has are all of her, in her golden halo and in the orange flame of his soul burning for eternity. He's warm when he thinks of her.
Cold soaks him through and through. The lesser spirits and trivial demons have the gall to sneer at him, and he tears into them. Not the Rider, just Robbie.
He wonders why he's here - the Rider took him from the living realm to the spirit realm and the magic realm but now he was forsaken by the Rider's sense of humor. He walks for days on end, looking.
Days stretch into centuries, and Robbie raids the tundra, burning those truly horrible things back into the mystical realm they came from - the Rider can't take his flesh and bones there, but Robbie doesn't want him to. He raids a cabin that is half caved in, snarling and snapping at a sinner who tried to leech his hellfire body heat.
He sits on the floor and thinks, back against the rickety bed-frame.
He's pathetic, living a half life in hell while his mind is up above: he's on autopilot down here, barely breathing and letting the Rider take the reins while his body commits atrocities. He misses the other world, the one with Gabe and (he hates to say it) SHIELD. He misses speaking with Elena and Mack, and he misses annoying Fitz and Jemma and God, does he miss Daisy. (CONTINUE READING)
