#para: charlie sven (butterfecly effect au)

[thefallons]

secrets | the fallon-vogels + charlie (butterfly effect au)

Above all the things Jensen felt as he sat in the living room of his childhood home, confusion permeated them all. In another nearby room, three men spoke away from him in secrecy, one his father by blood, another by law and a third by bond. It was unnerving to Jensen, to be kept in the dark for so long about something that should have yielded a simple answer from Charlie. 

The man was technically his uncle, though estranged from the family now, but he would have had plenty of reasons to interact with Jensen when he was younger, before he left the Vogel clan for good...right? He didn’t think the explanation warranted a trip to his fathers’ house, let alone one that made each man within it so apprehensive. 

Jensen had been lost, staring off into a moving photograph on the wall from his Durmstrang graduation. Both of his dads proudly had their arms around his shoulders and Jensen himself looked happy in the picture, but he had been in a mood that day, he remembered as much, rather clearly. But his attention was taken by the sounds of Charlie, Scotia and Sven returning to the room.

His eyes moved back and forth between the adults, all looking more serious now than they had when they’d left him. It was strange how daunting it all felt. Jensen himself was 22 years old by this point but somehow, looking around the room made him feel as though he was still a child, humbly in front of them as nothing more. Ultimately his unsurety found him looking up at Scotia, who had come to stand by his side. There was a fight or flight level of trust with which Jensen regraded his biological father, so he chose Scotia to ask, “What’s going on?”

Only after he spoke, he glanced briefly at Sven and realized that his dads were oddly flanking him. He couldn’t understand their somewhat defensive stature, and so he finally turned his gaze to Charlie, who was now across from him. Jensen was disappointed to be incapable of drawing any answers from the men’s faces but it was Scotia who finally put an end to the silence. 

“Jensen, you wanted to know why Charlie has pictures of you from when you were young and he’s brought you here because we’re all involved in the answer, alright?” the man began, his voice having dropped into a patient and somewhat protective tone while singularly addressing his son. “Your father and I never told you completely how we met or how we found our way to each other because it was something that caused some discourse in the family. But you need to know if you want to understand those photos.” 

Scotia paused to allow Jensen a moment to process what he’d said so far, but the younger man only seemed more flustered as the lack of questions answered already. “So what happened?” Jensen questioned around the room, glancing from one man to the other again until his eyes found and settled on Sven, the most straight forward and no-bullshit of his parents. 

“What are you guys being so cryptic about? Whatever it is, I can handle it, dad,” Jensen insisted to Sven, his voice always tugging in a very particular inflection whenever he addressed the older man as his father. Echoes of the voice of a loving and excitable child always shone through uniquely in the way Jensen said the word “dad,” and recently, with their relationship on the mend, such touches in his vernacular seemed more pronounced.

@imbloodbuzz

#the way i CANNOT believe this was your idea i've created a god damn monster lmao #what is proof reading its 4am love me for who i am #c: Jensen (Butterfly Effect AU) #c: Scotia (Butterfly Effect AU) #o: Sven (Butterfly Effect AU) #o: Charlie (Butterfly Effect AU) #para: charlie sven (butterfecly effect au) #this is mostly long bc set up dont look at me I TRIED TO KEEP IN CONCISE BUT GOSH THERE'S SO MUCH TO BE SO MUCH TO DESCRIBE FOREVER BYE #butterfly effect au #BE AU