open post.

[bigdrop]

Comments

text; 1/??

[raleighs]

yance

[raleighs]

YANCY

[raleighs]

omg you old fuck wake up right now

[raleighs]

yancy i'm serious

[raleighs]

[It is a pretty average June morning, finals are over for those still in high school (which relates to Yancy's little brother and his girlfriend) so there's lot of time for other things. Things like having sex for the first time. Raleigh's not that cool or sexy but he's enthusiastic and eager and Mako seemed to like it too, if the noises she made are anything to go by.

Raleigh really likes the noises and the whole sex thing and it's only the very real threat that her dad is going to catch him in her bed when he comes home that has him reluctantly kissing her goodbye and sneaking back next door to his house.

It's late/early, like five in the morning and there's no way that Raleigh is going to be able to sleep tonight. It's a lost cause, really, and he knows that, he's too excited and happy and delirious and wait. Wait, Yancy needs to know about this. So that's what leads to him pushing open the door to Yancy's room and bouncing on the side of his bed. Did you like having that blanket? That's too bad.]

Yancy. Yance. Yance wake up.

[bigdrop]

Jesus Christ, [ Yancy mutters, pulling the pillow over his head. The second worst day of Yancy's life had been when Raleigh had creeped downstairs with his sheets at four in the morning just as Yancy was coming home from his graveyard shift, and Yancy had to sit him down to talk to him about condoms and Mako and condoms again. The additional laundry Yancy had to wash starting from that point forward was just spiteful on top of everything else.

Raleigh is why everybody on their street thinks the Beckets are like the drunk and overexcited version of The Beverly Hillbillies, Yancy thinks bitterly, and rolls over to smack Raleigh in the cheek, pushing him away from the bed. And then Yancy rolls up tight like a pillbug, curling in on himself for warmth. He still hasn't opened his eyes. ] Can't you wait a few hours?

text; idek

[suicidemission]

hey fuckwit tell your brother to stop calling me at 2am shrieking 'I PUT THE FIRE OUT' cause I'm gonna fuckin kill him

[bigdrop]

man, if you can get him to stop calling at 2am at all, then you can come talk to me, OK?

[bigdrop]

[ shit wait he was half asleep when he sent that ]

WHAT FIRE?

[notamistake]

Yancy I have a date I'll be back at 8

[bigdrop]

[ red flags RED FLAGS ]

hold up, kiddo. a date with who?

[dispensing]

[ She works in medical, trying to get to get promoted to head of medical but right now she’s just a nurse that’s really background noise to all of the goings on in the shatterdome, and she generally gets shafted with the graveyard shift that no one wants because there’s not as much action at this time as there is other parts of the day.

But that’s alright, Annie doesn’t mind, she’ll pay her dues and do her job and work hard and maybe one day she’ll be the one assigning the graveyard instead of working it.

It’s like 4am and she’s practically falling asleep, forehead in her palm when the door busts open and of all people it’s Yancy Becket and she gets up so fast the chair skitters backwards and falls over.

How can she help good sir. ]

[oceanfloor]

if your brother ever "borrows" max again to "impress mako" i will castrate him

just thought u should know

[bigdrop]

kid, have you seen that dog of yours? cute, but not so impressive.

rals probably wanted to get max started on some health regiment without you knowing

[suicidemission]

dude I smell smoke

[bigdrop]

EXTINGUISHER NOW

1/?

[needmorecoffee]

becket, you professed your undying devotion to me last week

[needmorecoffee]

pressed too soon

ANYWAY. yance, i need a favor

[sonkei]

good evening, ranger becket.
i was wondering if i could ask you something about your brother.

[ she knows all the possible things that yancy might suggest to the question what would your brother like as a present? but relying on a drift-by-proxy feels too much like cheating. ]

[bigdrop]

you know, miss mori, with you having saved the world and all, i think you get to call me "yancy".
what's your question?

[ the gifts yancy would suggest would probably be inappropriate and totally humiliating, but he can do proper and thoughtful for mako, so she's right on that one. ]

[jaeger_fly]

[ She is never, ever, making friends with the seasoned reporters at the office ever again. At least not ones who spill the beans when they find out that their intern used to be a silly little teenager who proudly called herself jaeger fly. ]

Ranger Becket.

[ Play it cool, Sokolov. You were a footnote and probably not all that memorable. ]

Any words for the LA Times about your December drop in Manila?

[raleighs]

[Raleigh can't stand bullies. He thinks they're just the scum of the entire world, worse than the kaiju, worse than anything. He can ignore pretty much anything people say about him, roll it off his shoulders like it's nothing. But when some asshole trips another kid in the hall, and starts laughing about it, kicks a book out of his reach so he can't pick up his things--

Well, Raleigh's got a black eye starting to form but you should definitely see the asshole he punched. Especially after he made some comment about his sister and he deserved it alright. Had it coming. Someone had to shut him up and Raleigh's not even a little bit sorry that it was him.

He's stewing in a chair outside the principal's office, holding a shitty ice pack to his cheek as he waits for his mom to come get him. Since he's been suspended for a week for fighting. Or he assumes it's going to be his mom, since Yancy's at work today and there's no reason for him to leave early just because of this.]

[bigdrop]

[ After he hangs up - Yancy put himself down on Raleigh's forms as an emergency contact for when their mom can't be reached, so he gets the call from the office about an hour or so before he comes off shift - Yancy's putting on his jacket and making apologies to his boss before he's even thought about it, climbing into his shitty car and driving straight for Raleigh's high school.

When he gets there, the kid's sitting just where the lady at the office told him where he'd be, glare visible even through the dirty glass door Yancy's looking in through; Yancy pauses by the door just for a second to check him over, and --

-- He really shouldn't be feeling that gut-clenching flare of pride that lingers even after Yancy's conscience cuts in to tell him to contain that shit, because Raleigh getting himself into trouble at school shouldn't be something to celebrate over. Raleigh's well-being is a responsibility of Yancy's, now, and Yancy can't say he's doing a good job of it anymore if Raleigh is coming home with black eyes and split lips and bruises, never mind that Yancy was the one to give him a lesson or two about fighting back, always fighting back. But it looks like Raleigh figured how to do that mostly on his own.

Tough kid. Yancy shakes his head and pulls the door open, walking in until he's close enough to see the resentment and fury still there in Raleigh's eyes before Yancy drops a hand on Raleigh's tense shoulder, shaking once, lightly. ] So how's the other guy look?

polyamory ; next morning

[raleighs]

[babybecket]

[As much as he tries to run from it, tries to hide it, downplay it, ignore it, Jaz is still a Becket and when he crashes, he doesn't do it in small measures.

It's like this. Jaz does not handle his mother's death well. Doesn't understand how it doesn't affect Yancy and Raleigh like it does him, they're out there saving the world and being cocky assholes about it too all over the news and it feels like he can barely breathe without sobs threatening to break out, without tears forming at the corners of his eyes.

His brothers save Lima and someone says hey aren't you-- and he doesn't respond with his fists. Probably should've. Probably should've just smacked the guy and called it a night but he goes and takes the first drink, the first hit that someone offers him and he doesn't think twice about it because he doesn't want to be himself anymore tonight. No more Jaz Becket. Just a kid who is hanging out at a party, dancing with a cute girl, having a drink and a good time and if he ends up in the hospital-- well.

It doesn't stop him from taking more the next time he's offered it. And the next and the next and the next until he stops counting days in weeks and instead how long it's been since he's had a hit.

Do you know what it's like, to be able to forget your problems for a few hours? It's addicting, it's intoxicating, he doesn't want to stop. Doesn't ever want to come down.

Jaz has no idea how Yancy knows, or if he knows but he has to know because what else would he be doing here. It's been almost a year since they last talked, since they were even in the same zip code, much less Yancy being at his front door. He can't imagine it's a social call. Jaz is squinting at him, leaning against the door frame with a bottle of something in one hand. Why is it so bright out?]

... Yancy?

placeholder for pain

[babybecket]

[kirking]