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Actions Work HeaderRating::Category:Fandoms:Relationships:Characters:Additional Tags:Language:EnglishStats:Published:2015-06-21Completed:2016-12-05Words:141368Chapters:26/26Comments:961Kudos:2078Bookmarks:Hits:37057Light a Match and All I'll See is YouSummary:
A strange vine covered building that looked abandoned but certainly wasn't abandoned was the last thing Josh expected to find in the woods. Especially a strange vine covered building occupied by people with superpowers.
He certainly didn't expect to find a strange man with an addictive personality and paint covered hands.
'"I've never seen you before,' they spoke, and it clicked that this must be Tyler.
Tyler, the one who was screaming in the corner about not being Tyler."
Notes:
After midnight I get weird ideas for fics and then I write them.
Got big plans for this. Stay tuned.
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: 001Chapter Text
Josh was an idiot.
He hadn't planned on spending his Saturday night running away from two very scary looking large men - he was sure nobody planned on doing that. Who wanted to be chased by two very scary looking large men on a Saturday night? Certainly not Joshua Dun.
Josh was an idiot because he had left his apartment late that afternoon to go to the music store downtown because he just had to look at that drumset he knew he would never be able to afford, the one that sat in the back coated in a sleek black finish, the one that Josh wanted to play so badly. Josh was an idiot because he had been in such a rush to see this stupid expensive drumset he totally forgot to lock his door. Josh was an idiot because he walked into his house to find two very scary looking large men sitting on his cheap, ripped couch, smoking what was certainly not a normal cigarette, and all he had said was "I wasn't expecting company."
Josh was an idiot for being a stupid, naive young adult wanting to defy his parents by getting involved in something he really shouldn't have gotten involved in. Josh did drugs once. Josh hauled drugs from Ohio all the way to California once. He thought he had escaped from that life five years later.
Josh was an idiot for thinking that.
So now Josh was running down alleyways and shoving trash cans and whatever else he could find behind him to block the path, jumping every time he heard yelling or a gun shot. He was shimmying between cars and jaywalking across streets and all he could think was I am so so so screwed I am going to die why did I not lock my door I am an idiot I'm going to die.
He was tired and his feet hurt and he wanted to stop but he kept going, because he was scared for his life and Josh was an idiot and couldn't go back home. He ran faster than he had ever ran, adrenaline coursing through his veins as he left the outskirts of the city and darted into a forest he had never paid any attention too. How long had those stupid trees been growing out of the ground? How long had this stupid forest been right next to the city? Josh couldn't tell you.
It was dark and he had to focus on not tripping over tree roots or running into poisonous plants as well as not getting killed. His breathing was too loud and his eyes weren't working properly. What had he done wrong? How had they found him?
