Pigment (Millard Nullings X Reader)

Spider-Man SUCKS

Everything afterwards was a flash.

We stood in a train station, linked together and looking for London. There, we started this big fight against the normal adults passing by. We ran out of the railway station, and laughed with Enoch as we all suddenly realized it wasn't a shining, shimmering, splendid place that he constantly described it to be. We also had a moment of silence for Hugh's poor bees.

Somehow, Horace was able to catch an ordinary pigeon, which led us to an inordinate tomb. With the help of Bronwyn, we were able to crawl inside and find ourselves in a new loop. There, we met Peter and Joel, siblings whose listening abilites were almost as scary as their psychic connections to each other. No joke went unheard by the two, although it was too bad they never understood the punchlines.

We all waited in a dark tunnel for Horace, Jacob and Emma to go pigeon catching in the loop. After a good twenty minutes or so (although it felt longer in the pitch black that surrounded us), the trio made it out with a peculiar pigeon. And a telekinetic girl. (I later learned her name was Melina, and would have killed the three of them if it wasn't for the fact that Horace had dreamed about her before. Cue the song Once Upon a Dream with the singing owl and tiny-waisted Princess Aurora.)

Hollows followed us back to the London streets as we pleaded for safety in the house of strangers. There, we had empty threats thrown at us by a pale and frightened girl, while her younger sister hid in the comforts of a bathtub. Not the best hiding spot, but supposedly the tub was bomb-proof (according to the young girl, of course).

"Don't be rude, Jacob," I murmured to him. "The two girls obviously have no other family to go to."

"How do you know?"

Enoch showed an ounce of kindness and got yelled at afterwards. The hollows ended up finding us, but as they neared the house, a bomb attacked us first. The hollows were dead, but our group was alive, thanks to the itchy sweaters Addison had given us earlier. Not only were they great for keeping us warm, but they also kept us safe.

While looking through the ruins of the house, we found the younger girl, Esme, safe and frightened in her bathtub, so I gave her my sweater to cover herself in. Our host, Sam, was not as fortunate as the rest of us, and ended up getting impaled. She saw the whole manner as rude, and quickly took the foreign object out of her, and shooed us all away.

I decided that being peculiar was scary. We had managed to find another loop to bounce to, and a little room to set up in as well. There were boxes of costumes, both for blending in, and to stand out. I found a good pair of pants, and swapped it out for the ridiculous skirt that was starting to fray at the seams. Millard wore a suit and tie, which I told him looked very lovely. However, Emma advised him to put the clothes back, but I made sure to sneak in the coat for Millard later.

Ears popped. Collars up.

An ice fortress.

We finally met Miss Wren, and we introduced her to Miss Peregrine, except something was wrong.

That's how we met Caul.

The sick bastard pretended to be Miss Peregrine, and it waz all our fault that he finally got to Miss Wren. How dare he think that he get get away as a bird for so long, make us care for him as our own, scared to death that we were going to lose our headmistress when she was already gone. I got stabbed just to learn that it was for nothing. I learned that I almost lost my life multiple times for a woman who wasn't even with us. I tried to be the hero I knew I never could be, to save the person who had the highest expectations for me, and saw something special in me. How dare he take her away from us like that.