Controlee: Outtakes and AUs

Outtake: 'Parent' Reveal

In an early version of Controlee, I devised a reveal of the Doctors Ogawa as Otsuka's bio parents quite different from what happened in the real thing. In the end the story didn't align for it to happen, but here's what it might've looked like if it had.

The idea for this is that Nezu had to do some kind of parent-principal conference to assure all parents of the efforts taken to protect their children. It was planned for before the summer camp, but well after the internship week.

While students aren't meant to be there, Otsuka has to go because Yamada is working at the radio station and Aizawa is required at the conference since his class keeps taking the bulk of the dangers. 

There's a brief bit in bold in the middle of the text. It is one of my author's notes. I have left it in on purpose for your enjoyment.

Their footsteps rang through the corridors in the silence between them but neither particularly felt the need to say anything. It was peaceful, tranquil, safe.

And then the worst happened.

It was all completely fine, Aizawa had stopped just outside the door they were meant to be going in for the conference and Otsuka, clearly half the world away, had failed to notice they'd reached the right door or the sudden lack of a figure in her peripheral vision until she was a good two metres past. Naturally she'd turned around, ready to watch Aizawa roll his eyes and walk through the door while she had to hurry to catch up and that's what happened, only with one small addition.

Aizawa wasn't through the door, and left Otsuka with a full view of what was down the corridor behind him. Two people, both tall, but one broad-shouldered, the other more narrow. A couple, holding hands, wearing clothes fit for the occasion: smart but not too smart. It was a scene out of a nightmare.

Rage, red and hot, burned in her stomach and rushed straight to her head but she swallowed it right back down and almost sprinted to get after her guardian who was waiting for her just beyond the door. "Sorry," she apologised, "I need the toilet." It was a lie but Aizawa didn't need to know that.

The man frowned at her. "You went just before we left," he pointed out because she wasn't a toddler with a bladder the size of a squirrel.

She forgot about that. "Right yeah but-" She really needed to practice excuses under pressure, or prepare a series of lies to get out of undesirable situations she could pull out of the hat for situations like this- "I think my period started." (Hang on, she doesn't get periods, but doesn't that just make this funnier?) Mags always said, if there was one way to get a man to leave you alone, it was to bring up the menstrual cycle.

In his defence, his reaction was not the strong or disgusted one Otsuka had expected from Mags' story-telling. "Get going then."

She didn't waste another second. She strode towards her parents, trying and failing to keep her anger and incredulity at their presence here out of her body. They stopped walking when they realised she was stalking towards them, hovering nervously beside each other while the child they'd disowned came at them with a fire at her back. Neither of them fought against her when she gripped their forearms and dragged them down a corridor that was barely used even when school was actually in session, let alone after hours.

Perhaps if she'd been in her right mind, she would've realised she'd gone in the wrong direction if she needed the toilet and that Aizawa had watched her go. If she'd been patient and gone the correct way, waited a few moments and then gone after her parents, then maybe things would have turned out differently.

"What are you doing here?" Her voice was not gentle, it was harsh, if there were a spectrum between normal speech and unintelligible hissing noises filled with the rage of a hundred kangaroos on a blood-of-humans-only diet, her voice currently would lean towards the latter.