#william gray

Characters: Deacon St. John, William “Boozer” Gray, and Langston

Deacon and Boozer were in this corporate (I presume the FBC) building, surprisingly there were no Freaks, instead it was the Hiss, and Deacon had these Fire and telekinetic powers, he started to fly around and taking them down and so did Boozer except he had metal powers and he was on the ground, AND he had both arms.

After a little bit of fighting, Deacon landed and felt the Oldest House doing a thing and then the ground caves in(?) and Boozer begins to fall through. Deacon, in a rush to catch him falls through too.

(I can’t really remember this part too well) but it seems like they fell through to a dark, abandoned room, and couldn’t make their way back the same way they came. The dark room looked like the Investigations Sector (AWE) but it was more open space.

So they moved forward in the sector, later they begin to fight the Hiss again, this time, Deacon was struggling. Out the corner of his eye, he sees a bomb-lookin’ thing, and he SCREAMED at Boozer to get away, as the thing was perched on a support beam for the upper level to investigations(?)

The bomb blew up. Deacon felt the blast-wave and was knocked back into the wall quite hard, he passed out on impact, and then was nearly buried under some rubble. When he woke up, he pulled himself from under and started to yell for Boozer, even though Deacon thought he was too close to the blast, and assumed the worst.

Eventually he found Boozer. Deacon sat on his legs (even though his body hurt, mainly his left arm, chest, and abdomen), shook Boozer wake, calling him. After what seemed like forever, Boozer woke up and got up from under the rubble. The first thing the older brother saw when he got up were the glassy eyes and worried face of the younger. (Yes Deacon canonically says he’s younger than Boozer in the “Lisa Ending”, that’s also how I pegged Deacon to be 20s to early 30s)

Turns out Boozer had scared Deacon. They talked and kept moving forward.

More fighting, this time Deacon was in the line of fire. Boozer, instead of saying anything rushed to push Deacon out the way of the oncoming debris from the Hiss Warped about to crush him. Deacon was pushed out the way and landed on his back, immediately flipping over onto his hands and knees.

Something was different, Deacon could feel an Object of Power near by but not Boozer’s presence. As he got closer to the ruble, what Boozer was underneath (again), as he got closer to the pile of debris. Deacon felt this wave of fear and nervousness, it was enough to make his hands and breathing shaky.

With a hint of hesitation, Deacon lifts the debris from off of Boozer and uses it as cover. Boozer gets up immediately but he has something on his head, that Deacon thought was VERY amusing.

Deacon made a noise that sounded like a cross between a chuckle and a wheeze. When Boozer(?) turned his head to look, Deacon had hid behind the debris, and desperately tried to muffle his laughter. Deacon got up on his knees and turned to see if Boozer was still looking, he wasn’t. Deacon called him. Boozer responded and tried to take off the mask and when he did... the mask had made a noise. Deacon burst out into a laughing fit. Boozer had given him the dumb look once he had gotten it off.

Deacon slowed to a stop in his laughing fit, and grabbed the Object of Power, which was the rubber chicken mask on Boozer, and cleansed it. They returned it to Langston.

WHAT A DREAM

And this is the (old) art that went with it. I should revisit this AU.