summary: in a shocking turn of events, an episode of buzzfeed unsolved becomes solved.
word count: 1,331
warnings?: okay i don't know how accurately i was able to portray ryan and shane but let's pretend i did well, kind of cringe but oh well, not proofread
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Twitter was always a mixed bag. Especially when you were a person in the public eye, it could be particularly difficult trying to navigate social media. When it's your job, you have to. You have to interact with people who have opinions on you, no matter how good or how bad. And, sure, while you usually weren't directly interacting by replying or retweeting or liking or whatever with people who are intensely negative towards you, you still have to see them in the search of the good.
Ryan was usually the one to go through Twitter, especially since he was the one seeking out comments to include in videos that he was in charge of. It could be fun, sometimes, seeing people's different theories about the cases they've covered, seeing the cool edits and amazing fan art, and the like. Today, though, was a lot more interesting than normal.
In looking through the tags for himself and Shane, he found a thread that sparked his interest. In the last season of Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime years ago, they had covered the mysterious disappearance of eight year old Peter Quill from St. Charles, Missouri. Quill was the child of a single mother, raised by her and her father. Unfortunately, Quill's mother was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She didn't live long after her diagnosis. In the immediate aftermath of his mother's death, Quill was reported to have ran out of the hospital, crying, and was never seen again. Search efforts for the boy quickly ran cold. It was almost as if someone had dropped down from the sky, picked up the boy, and flew far, far away from his home.
Shane, naturally, had mocked Ryan when he regaled the theory that Quill had been abducted by aliens. Admittedly, Ryan knew that it was a ridiculous claim. Even in a world where there were genetically enhanced super soldiers, scientists who transformed into giant green rage machines, and people from literal legend, it did seem a bit off the wall to divert to the classic "UFO picks up person in the middle of a field" scenario. But, the beauty of Buzzfeed Unsolved was throwing in the outlandish theories in the mix of the more realistic scenarios to lighten the mood.
The episode had ended as it always does, with Ryan declaring that the mysterious disappearance of Peter Quill would forever remain unsolved. After going through the Post Mortem episode discussing the viewer's comments on the episode, Ryan admittedly hadn't given the case much thought. Sure, it was an interesting case and was one of much intrigue, but it wasn't something that kept him awake at night, frothing at the mouth for any kind of answers.
