The Truth about Broom - RP with captain_flyboy<user site="live

[open_flame]

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.

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[open-flame.livejournal.com]

"It's true." I smile warmly at him. It's almost as if the issues between us are forgotten, If only for a moment. "She was Mulder's partner for years. She said he's just as great as your father said he was. In fact, the more she tells me about him, the more I think you two would get along great."

"It is good, Red. I want you to be happy, too." I keep smiling. "You can be happy without me, you did it for 40 years without me."

[captain-flyboy.livejournal.com]

Abe watches me a long time before he speaks again. "Captain, I am telepathic in a way, would you mind terribly if I took a look inside your mind," he asked and I look at him with a frown.

"Why would you want to do that," I ask and he smiles. "I want to make sure Broom was right about you," he says which makes perfect sense to me.

"All right then," I say with a nod, "I won't fight you."

[righthanddoom.livejournal.com]

"If you ever meet Mulder, you have to get me an autograph." I smile at her. It's nice to not have that gnawing feeling of anger dominating me. Maybe, I can get over this, what happened in Russia, the fact that she left us. Maybe.

"Kid, I don't want to live without you. I know you got a life to live and...new friends." I put my hand on her cheek and smile. "Just don't forget where you came from, who your family is." I can't stay mad at her, no matter how much she hurts me, even being here now, I can't stay mad. "You need to come visit more often."

[open-flame.livejournal.com]

"I will, I have to get one for myself anyway." I smile back at him. Dana will probably laugh at me if Mulder ever turns up again, standing next to him like an excited teenager, asking for an autograph.

"Red, I miss you, too." I reach out and hug him chest. I really do miss him, and his father so much. It's hard enough being away from the place I grew up in for the second longest time in my life. Adding the lose of Broom and not having Red to talk to just makes it worse. My new friends are great, Jack is wonderful, but sometimes you need someone who knows everything about you.

"I won't ever forget, I promise." I whisper through a few tears. "I will try and come back more, too. I was just so scared of how you would feel about..." I pull away from him and frown. "About...the whole... Jack...thing."

[captain-flyboy.livejournal.com]

I lower my mental shields as Abe places a cool, webbed hand against my face. The memories sweep over us at the same time and I do my best to condense them into flashes so Abe doesn't drown in them.

Flash: Two boys running the older one screaming Gray, Gray after he drops the younger one's hand.


Flash: Me as a younger man watching a blue box fade before my eyes, heartbroken.

Flash: Bits from my hundred years on Earth.

Flash: Meeting Ianto, Tosh and Gwen, Suzie shooting herself.

Flash: A brief glimpse of the Master, before I slam a mental door on that.

Flash: John, Hart, Gray, Tosh and Owen dying.

Flash: Steven, the Hub exploding, pain, Alice screaming, Ianto saying I love you.

Finally Abe pulls away and we both are shaking. "I'm sorry," I manage.

[righthanddoom.livejournal.com]

Bumping again