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Liz Sherman ([personal profile] open_flame) wrote2009-09-19 10:38 pm

The Truth about Broom - RP with [livejournal.com profile] captain_flyboy<user site="live

I stare up at the building I called my home for the past 2 decades, my stomach feeling like a rock. I glance over at Jack "I don't know if we should do this. I don't think Hellboy wants to see me...after everything."

I broke his heart. I walked out on everyone and everything, my whole life. I ran away to New York. A chance meeting with Captain Jack Harkness changed my life forever. Truthfully, I was beginning to think that nothing was chance anymore. Jack knew Prof. Trevor Broom more than 60 years ago. They worked together in WWII. He was there the day Hellboy came though that portal. Broom was like a father to me since I was 12 years old, and he called Hellboy his son.

Broom was murdered by Kroenen in cold blood, under the orders of Grigori Rasputin just a few short months ago. I had no idea Jack was at the funeral. I didn't even know he knew Broom until several days ago. What was even more shocking was the fact that Broom had terminal cancer. He had told Jack just a week before he was murdered. He never told anyone at BRPD that I knew of.

I lead the way on that familiar walk to Hellboy's room, and glance at John Myers as he opens the vault like door. He's staring at my like I'm walking into a death sentence. "He's not the same since you left, Liz." Myers warns me. "None of us are." I don't meet his eyes. I can't.

I look over at Jack as the door to Hellboy's room creaks open. I have such a bad feeling about this.

[identity profile] open-flame.livejournal.com 2009-10-02 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I nod back. "Sorry if I'm so moody. It's not easy to quit." I snap one of the bands on my wrist and try not to think about cigarettes. Focus on dinner, focus on being happy and focus on Jack. I tell myself.

"I tried a few times before but the closest I ever came was..." I trail off. "Last time I left BPRD, but I had...help then."

[identity profile] captain-flyboy.livejournal.com 2009-10-02 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I nod. "And you have help now Liz I promise," I say, "all of us will help you quit and will help you become a better person."

I mean what I say, Liz has so much potential and it will be fun working to bring it out of her.