Catnapping - OTA

[death_from_above]

Who: Spark and whomever
Where: All around the train
When: After the mission, before the platform
What: Spark being introspective while trying to pretend he's still just... Spark
Warnings: Angst, possible violence mentions.


Spark often claimed that he slept through missions to explain why he was absent from them, so he was free to have Gar or Privateer Pirate show up. But this time he actually had slept. He'd been sleeping a lot since that world with the fake lives, that one that felt so much like a storm from Nautilus.

But he was....

Lonely. That was it. He was lonely.

He was more settled now than he had been after the fish world, but he was still barely eating and avoiding people. Or had been. He just...

He wished Adrien would show up here. Or The Doctor would know who he was. Rose. Nino. Connie. Nita. Kirika. Dominic. Greg. Donovan. Luna. He'd even take Jacob or Gabriel at this point, though each had their issues. Of course if he was bothering with wishing... Quilt.

He shook himself and walked through the train, looking for someone who needed a cat to snuggle with, or tell their problems to. Or a friendly face from Nautilus, since none from his real home or Paris were here...

Comments

[death_from_above]

"The direction is keeping Adrien and them safe," he pointed out.

"Maybe not... but I do regret that any of us left Nautilus. At least we were together there..."

[motherofresistance]

Leia sighed. "Spark, in order to keep them safe you would have to take away their Miraculous," she said. "Because as long as they even have them, they're going to be in danger and are going to keep throwing themselves into more of it. So long as Adrien's Chat Noir, he'll never be safe, no matter what you or anyone else does. You can't protect him from the life he leads, Spark."

"And yes we were. But not all of us had a choice about leaving, and for those that did, it was their decision to move on. Whether or not it was the right one depends on the individual, but sometimes people need to do that. Sometimes people's lives simply go in different directions."

[death_from_above]

"No, to keep them safe I have to take away Papillon's Miraculous. They'd be safe just fighting regular crime in their transformations. He's the danger."

"But Adrien, Nino, and I... we didn't choose. Most of us didn't get to choose!"

[motherofresistance]

"And can you guarantee than an equal or more dangerous threat won't rise to fill Papillion's place?", Leia asked. "That no one else will ever abuse the power of a Miraculous? Or that some sort of unrelated disaster might not occur? I'm not going to deny that removing Papillion from the picture would help, but it wouldn't be the be all and end all that fixes the situation. As long as they have the means, they're going to keep throwing themselves into harm's way. Because that's the sort of people they are, and because they're all to one degree or another overconfident teenagers who don't know their limits yet."

"And sometimes, that happens too. Life takes unexpected turns, and the multiverse is notably unfair. That doesn't make behaving recklessly to get what you want out of it any better of an idea."

[death_from_above]

"Removing him will remove that threat. And give them time to survive to not be overconfident teens any more by the time the next threat shows up."