
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
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He’s doing this. There’s a lot of ways to say it, with you’re fucked and you’re going to die being the top among them. It all boils down to the fact that he can’t get out of it, one way or another. He will enter a condemned building, he will be chained by Evil’s hand, and he might die as a lethal tonnage of concrete and steel collapses on top of him.
There’s an odd sort of relief in that. Knowing that he has no way out, that the choice is made and the oath has been sworn. Past the point of doubt and worry, he can relax and settle himself on the task that lays before him.
Getting married.
He’s not sure how his wedding figures into this path he’s now committed to following, but instead of training that first crucial day after meeting The Darkness head on, he’s on his laptop browsing sites for something to wear. Suit or costume, like the red pirate dress Zee was showing him, he still can’t decide. And he must decide, he knows this on a level he can’t explain.
Aunt Zephyr still won’t talk to him. Zee’s cooking and cursing somewhere in the kitchen. May is sitting in his lap, struggling with the challenge of handling her new white tiger, a tiny plush toy sent with love from Channing and Stephanie. Around him, life goes on while he settles the details of marrying his fiancée.
He doesn’t know how it’s connected, he just knows it is. It might be debris left behind by the power that controlled him for a time, or it might be some fact that lay sleeping in his mind from a young age when his father still fought for the order. Like the Fraternity nursery rhymes he sings to May and the stories he tells her before she goes to bed, perhaps it’s something he’s known his whole life and been unaware of.
When the wedding is finalized, he will be ready to train. In the work, the preparation, there’s a place to put the fear and worry that toe the line in his head and heart. He has a path to follow…all of his energy is for that journey alone.
If he doesn’t think too hard about where that path could lead, he can focus on staying alive.
Muse: Tommy Karras
Fandom: Original Character
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