PAST LIVES | ❝Past lives couldn't ever hold me down, lost love is sweeter when it's finally found. I've got the strangest feeling. This isn't our first time around❞
POST: CIVIL WAR | STEVE ROGERS
BOOK TWO IN THE HERO OF HEROES SERIES
COVER BY: voidk...
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IF ANYONE WERE TO ASK, RHETT WOULDN'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN HOW HE MET NICKY GREEN.It was a few days after he had tried and failed to jump back home countless times and he had been on the verge of breaking, dealing with panic attack after panic attack; at least, that's what Nicky had called them.
A boy three years his junior, he wasn't sure how they had crossed paths. But then suddenly the recent high school graduate was tugging him along, hiding him in an apartment complex that he was sure no one else but them were aware of. Them and the people they stayed with.
"What are you doing?" he asked, coming to sit next to the boy who had textbooks open all around him on his bed. Rhett didn't have an apartment of his own in the building, but Nicky happily let him stay with him.
"Studying," the boy replied idly, "I'm gonna graduate in two years so I don't have to be so old when I finally start my practice."
"You're going to be a psychologist?" Rhett asked, reading the cover of one of the textbooks, "And two years?"
"I've already taken all my pre-requisite courses as well as all the mandatory ones back in high school. You wouldn't believe me if I told you how it all went down, just trust me." The boy flipped the pages of a few of his textbooks, going on to scan through all of them.
Rhett didn't know what to say. Nicky Green was a huge culture shock for him, trying to feed him information in such a casual way that he was able to pick up context clues, but it sometimes became too much for him.
"Hey, listen," Nicky said, looking up from his books, "When I'm done, we can go watch some movies and you can ask me whatever questions you want. How are you holding up?"
He groaned, rubbing his eyes, thinking back to the articles of Steve he had read. "Awful. Just awful."
Nicky pursed his lips into a smile, even though he couldn't see him. "It'll get easier, bud, don't worry."
Rhett sighed, staring up at the ceiling. "I'm not so sure about that, kiddo. I'm not so sure."
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Steve was back at work and was much more on edge than before. Before, he worried about others recognizing him and alerting the authorities, but now he was on the lookout for Christian Hyde. As if his life couldn't get harder, he was now worried for the safety of both himself and Rhett, a man he was just beginning to remember more and more.
"How've you been, Grant?"
Steve jolted out of his thoughts to find Mona smiling at him, Rachel and a few of their friends sitting at their usual spot a ways away. He had to wonder what their jobs were as they tended to be there frequently, or Rachel was, at the very least. It had been a while since their Halloween party and Rachel had briefly questioned as to why he had left early, to which he gave a non-committal answer, Mona slipping in and saving him.
