[ They were speaking more hushed than normal this time and hadn't forgotten to watch their volume yet. When he pauses to listen, the entire Mercury house seems silent minus a few muffled thumps from people moving in other rooms and on other floors. Matt turns his head to Foggy and smiles, giving a little shrug. ]
Must be my imagination. I thought I heard people talking from far away earlier today, the way I normally would, but nothing has changed.
[ He shakes his head again, this time at his mistake, and he leans in to press a kiss to Foggy's lips. Maybe his frustrations are getting the best of him. Better to hold tight to Foggy and put his troubles aside for the night.
He's smiling at him and running his fingers over Foggy's forehead to brush back his hair when something drops in his stomach, his intuition telling him something isn't right a split second before he hears a familiar old voice rasping right in his ear as if the man were leaning in to bark at him the way he had so many times long ago.
"Matty, what the hell are you doing?"
Matt snaps to attention, spine straight, eyes wide. ]
Why-?
[ Matt's voice is choked when he speaks, barely getting out the word. His fingers tremble against the back of Foggy's neck. There's no way Stick could possibly...
The bodyless voice huffs in indignation. "You've made stupid decisions over the years but THIS is a new level of idiocy. You agreed to fight in this war- you made the decision to join- but you still haven't committed yourself. Still hesitating on the battlefield, still refusing to kill your enemies when you know it endangers others. Worse, you can barely fight properly even after all these months of training!
You know all this but instead of doing something about it you get in bed every night with Scruffy here and let him fill your head with softhearted shit while he fucks you like some kind of hoar. Is this what you got from all that time I taught you? You think being a soldier means playing house and sucking another man's dick? It's not genius!"
nsfw and tw because yikes (verbal abuse, homophobia, more to come no doubt)
Don't think so.
[ They were speaking more hushed than normal this time and hadn't forgotten to watch their volume yet. When he pauses to listen, the entire Mercury house seems silent minus a few muffled thumps from people moving in other rooms and on other floors. Matt turns his head to Foggy and smiles, giving a little shrug. ]
Must be my imagination. I thought I heard people talking from far away earlier today, the way I normally would, but nothing has changed.
[ He shakes his head again, this time at his mistake, and he leans in to press a kiss to Foggy's lips. Maybe his frustrations are getting the best of him. Better to hold tight to Foggy and put his troubles aside for the night.
He's smiling at him and running his fingers over Foggy's forehead to brush back his hair when something drops in his stomach, his intuition telling him something isn't right a split second before he hears a familiar old voice rasping right in his ear as if the man were leaning in to bark at him the way he had so many times long ago.
"Matty, what the hell are you doing?"
Matt snaps to attention, spine straight, eyes wide. ]
Why-?
[ Matt's voice is choked when he speaks, barely getting out the word. His fingers tremble against the back of Foggy's neck. There's no way Stick could possibly...
The bodyless voice huffs in indignation. "You've made stupid decisions over the years but THIS is a new level of idiocy. You agreed to fight in this war- you made the decision to join- but you still haven't committed yourself. Still hesitating on the battlefield, still refusing to kill your enemies when you know it endangers others. Worse, you can barely fight properly even after all these months of training!
You know all this but instead of doing something about it you get in bed every night with Scruffy here and let him fill your head with softhearted shit while he fucks you like some kind of hoar. Is this what you got from all that time I taught you? You think being a soldier means playing house and sucking another man's dick? It's not genius!"
Matt swallows loudly and forces out his words. ]
You're dead. This isn't real.