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Victor looked at the stranger and at his words he could feel the hairs on the back of his neck standup. Still, he remained calm “I take it this is about the story, but you’re not here to give me anything useful” he added “aside from the tough guy act” Taking a sip of his tea he wrote down something on his notepad “Since I assume you work for the Featherstone family I’m about to get the ‘stop now if you know what’s best for you’ spiel.

“Sounds like you know everything then.” he took a sip from his coffee, “what’s it like? being a know it all? Did that get you a lot of black eyes coming up?” he laughed, “look at you, just throwing that name around like you’re in some sort of movie. You having fun, yet?”

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‘no.” Romeo sat down, one leg crossed over the other as he stared at Victor, “I know your name but I have no idea who you are or why do you have a death wish.” He said as he waived the waitress over, “coffee, black.” he turned back to Victor, “you’re playing a dangerous game.”

Mob Justice

It had started with a body being fished out of the Hudson river. One gunshot right between the man’s eyes and he was gone before he hot the water.

Chalked up to a wrong place/wrong time situation Victor Federico knew that something more was at play. The John Doe had been too well dressed to be just some mishap. No way a guy like that would be in Brooklyn at 3 in the morning without a reason.

That had been his first story and with each new detail and new body Victor found himself as the premier story in New York City. The Featherstone mob was notorious and dangerous, at least as far as Victor was told. Putting Dan Featherstone’s name across the Times was a bold statement, but one Victor was not afraid to do.

Now, sitting in a café waiting for his next source he looked up as the guy sat down at his table.

“I take it you know who I am?” Victor asked him.

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“The first blizzard of the year is usually one of the worst” Edmund said “the ground hasn’t frozen over yet so there is no real protection for wheels” Putting the papers in his bag he looked at Buck “If I’m being conservative maybe 4 days? But more than likely about a week, by then they should have most of the roads back into the city cleared. Some Professors rent a hotel in the city for a week so if sounds good to you I don’t think anyone would hold that against you”

“Yeah. most of the kids think of it as a Winter Break, but a handful usually stay behind so I’m usually one of the staff that stays here too. You’re going to be bored and need some comfort foods so any favorite snacks? Beer? Now’s the time” Chuckling, he nodded “Good. Let me grab my coat and I’ll meet you at the entrance”

“Four days?!” his eyes went as wide as they could, “and you live like this? Knowing that you’ll be locked in more than a few times per year? That’s a lot of commitment to the craft.” He wrapped his scarf around his neck, “no need for a hotel. Not much different than my place on campus, neither would be my permanent home so at least this one has a full kitchen.” 

Locking up behind himself he walked down with the other professor, “well definitely should get some liquor, being on locked down for a week without a drink sounds miserable.” They stepped out, the snow was covering most of the ground already and the cold hit his face like an ice cold bath. “Frigid.”

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“So it’s really that serious huh?” Buck was sitting at one of his chairs, reading over a student’s work, “well how long do they really anticipate us being snowed in for? I mean does it warrant doomsday prepping or just to get us through maybe a day or two?” he set the paper down and stood up. Needless to say he had never been in this sort of position, but he knew just how bad some of these storms could get from watching the news. 

“Some of the students left town to avoid the storm, I imagine that should tell me enough about the situation?” he questioned while grabbing his coat and beginning to layer up. “Frankly, I don’t intend on living my apartment. I could do with some time away from work as I’m sure you could too.”

All Points

Radio: A strong blizzard is coming down from the mountains. Wind is expected to reach nearly 80 miles an hour and drop at least 25 inches. White out conditions will be a factor and police and mayor are saying to stay inside. Stay tuned to WCAR for further details.

Edmund looked at his class “Just because classes will be cancelled for the next few days doesn’t mean this is a chance to act up” he pointed to the class “I still expect all assignments to be done and curfew remains the same. No leaving the premise after 6 p.m. and check-ins every morning and evening” 

The bell rang and Edmund looked up at the speaker and then back to his students “Class dismissed” The kids stood up and said their goodbyes as Edmund gathered his papers and looked at his watch.

Going over to Buck’s office he gave it a knock “We have one last trip to the market to get anything we’ve forgotten. You want to come?”

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Lincoln looked up at the guy who had just walked in the door and gave him a warm smile “Good Afternoon, welcome to the Chelsea Hotel” he said as he offered his hand with a smile “You must be Mr. Federico, pleasure to have you here” 

Gesturing for the bellhop to grab his bags the man took them and began leading them to the elevator “You’ll be on the 11th floor and  rest assured everything is taken care of so no need to worry about ordering or anything, it’s all paid for”

“Dimaggio.” Thomas corrected the man as he reached out to shake his hand, taking in the space surrounding him. He knew where he was, he knew the Chelsea well, but wasn’t sure why he was here. “ok...Do you have any other information? An itinerary? Something about my parents?”

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Hitting his back hard on the floor the man looked up and gave a hard knee to Thomas’ side before standing “Name’s Caleb, the first son….the real one” he said “and I got pulled into this bullshit because you and whatever version of my father you call dad have issues to workout” Taking the sword he pushed it into Thomas’ foot “So fucking work it out, because believe me, you don’t figure it out and I’ll be the nice one”

Victor looking up from the ground could feel the wolf coming to the surface as his eyes flashed gold and he got to his feet. Turning his head Caleb chuckled “Damn, why couldn’t I get the werewolf father” he told him before disappearing into a bright void.

Already healing Victor went to the cabinet and pulled out a small wooden box and handed it over to Thomas “Take it” he told him “I don’t know what’s going on, but clearly you will need protection. That gun is filled with solver bullets, should kill human or beasts” He could hear Romeo coming “Go. Now!” he said “Romeo sees you and he won’t care who you are, he’ll tear you to pieces” The void was closing fast “Stay safe”

This was a rush, Thomas was fighting, listening, talking, healing, hurting, every emotion all at once. This Caleb character was here and while he heard him, h head was also swimming back and forth checking on Victor and he felt himself slip between memories. 

“Ok...” he said, not sure what he had agreed to but regardless he walked towards the void regardless. Box in hand, unsure of where it would lead him to. 

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“I mean, I hope not” Victor responded and then put his hands up “Fair point” he relented “I guess I was just curious, but we have bigger things to worry about now” He was about to stand when he felt a sharp pain in his stomach and he looked down to see what looked to be a large knife sticking out  and he coughed up blood before the knife was pulled out and he was kicked to the ground.

A hooded man standing where Victor had just stood he lifted the knife and slashed it across Thomas’ cheek “Get in the game you stupid bastard. Time is running out and I’m not about to lose everything because of your laziness”

Thomas chuckled, “I literally don’t know what’s happening.” he was saying until he saw the blonde and jumped out of his chair “WHAT THE FUCK!” he screamed out before he tackled the guy to the ground and punched him in the face, “You fucking psycopath!” 

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Victor chuckled “Evil?” he asked “I mean I’m sure I’ve probably been called that once or twice in my life. Come on” he lead Thomas into the kitchen and gestured for him to sit at the kitchen Island “Is this another displacement thing?” he questioned “I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see you, but I’m still having a hard time explaining the multiverse thing” Handing over his drink Victor sat down “Can I ask….did you and Miguel figure things out?”

Thomas walked slowly, sitting down at one of the bar stools, “so it is evil you.” he sighed heavily, “I don’t understand the schtick here. Like what’s the whole point of your little multivitamin thing. And none of your business to be honest.” 

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Victor could feel his twins’ fear and confusion and throwing the towel onto the table he rushed into the Livingroom, but stopped when he recognized who it was “Thomas?” he smiled and when Nathan turned to him Victor ruffled the boy’s head “It’s okay, this is a friend of Daddy’s, why don’t you and your brother go get washed up for lunch. As the boys went off, a bit cautiously, Victor turned back to Thomas “Wow, I didn’t think I’d ever see you again” He went over and hugged the taller man “How’d you get here?”

Thomas couldn’t be more confused as he looked around before he felt the hug (which he didn’t have the energy to return), “do you know what’s going on? I can’t tell if you’re an evil victor or a good victor, is it the same thing? I don’t know...I need a drink, you have any tequila?”

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Victor looked at Thomas and laughed “Clearly you aren’t Spiderman, you could never pull off that suit, but for now, how about you try to figure out which one of us are short-circuiting and take it from there” A snap of his fingers and Thomas was taken to a livingroom, food cooking on the stove and two pairs of feet running down the stairs. Stopping short two 5 year old boys looked at Thomas and their eyes glowed yellow before they sneered.

“I could definitely pull off the suit, but I’m too fit. More of a captain America probably...” He was about to say something else when he blinked and saw the living room then the two little demon children. “the fuck...I really need to stop taking that weird melatonin. I told Miguel.”

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Victor rolled his eyes “We don’t really have time to do the whole multiple universes exists thing, so just trust me, it does” He brought up one of the images that showed Victor in the midst of transforming from a wolf back to a human. “You actually know this Victor. He stayed with you for a couple days when you and Miguel were sleeping behind his fiancé’ back? You actually liked him”

Thomas knew something was wrong but it could also just be a wild dream. He didn’t really have the right tools at the moment to figure out what was going on. This Victor was very aggressive, a chip on his shoulder of sorts, but what he was saying did seem to ring a bell-- “ok...so what the fuck do you want me to do with this information? Sorry, not exactly spiderman or whatever the fuck.”

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“Prank” Victor chuckled “you really think your dad would put this much effort into you” He stood up “Mitch, maybe, but he’s the sensitive one so he probably wouldn’t” He took off the make-up protector “Listen up, because I don’t have all day” He snapped his fingers and a wall of images came up behind him. All with different images of Thomas’ father. 

Some young…some older 

“I guess fate or whatever felt it was time for you to step up” He walked across the studio and it slowly fell away as Victor passed it “Something is wrong with dear old dad, or one of them at least and it’s fucking up the rest of us so you need to figure it out and stop it or all of this…all of your life is gone” He balled his fist up and blew out a puff of glitter right in Thomas’ face “Just like that” He sighed “I mean I would have probably chosen Cass, but I guess they have to be blood related”

Thomas stood up again, rubbing his eyes as he stood to look at teh sudden wall. Wondering if maybe his coffee had been laced, or maybe he forgot he had a gummy? What the hell was this? “Huh.” Thomas said, feeling an incoming headache. Victor was talking weirdly...weirder than usual anyways. But how did he explain the wall and well, everything else. “Is this  dream? Am I high? Fuck I don’t what’s going on.” 

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hiddengchest​:

Victor looked at Thomas and chuckled “Oh relax” he told him “It’s 1935, how do you think people talk?” He smiled at his make-up artist “Besides, I’d lower that voice if I was you. Romeo and I ain’t your daddies here and the one you do have is pissed you got Miguel knocked up and married him” Standing up, Victor brushed his shirt off “I don’t think having a potty mouth will help matters much. You ready?”

Thomas laughed, at first slow and almost drawn out until he felt almost hysterical. It was comical, it was bad, it was dark and abnormal but somehow also felt very rooted in truth. “Dad stop, what the fuck are you going on about? This isn’t funny. It’s racist and also weird ass prank so how about you knock it off.” 

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“You shouldn’t be” Victor said “I think we’re filming your scene today. Most of the day is Martin and I’s scenes. Romeo once to get some early dailies out for the negro market” He lifted his head back “Speaking of, I think the studio wants to see if they can bring Miguel into the fold. Expand that market”

Thomas was just nodding along until the record scratch in his head stopped him dead on his tracks, “dad, what the fuck?” he asked with a raised brow, turning around and noticing how young his father looked, “wait, what the fuck is going on.” he looked around for cameras, “if this is a prank it’s not funny. that’s just fucked up.” 

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“Of course” Miguel smiled and kissed his cheek “you’re my husband, where else would I and our baby be” he told Thomas as he picked up the boy in the stroller just as Victor walked up to sit beside Thomas “Hey Miguel, how’s Eli doing?” he asked as he prepared for make-up.

“Great Mr. Federico” Miguel nodded “Good luck today” and with that Miguel walked off with the small boy “You’re a lucky man Thomas” Victor said “I hope you know that…did you get the revamped Script from development?”

“I don’t know, getting botox like all those fancy housewives? he joked as he got up from his chair and walked over to grab the baby, giving it a smooch before he returned him to Miguel. “Bye, see you guys in a bit.” he added before he turned to his father, “yeah, everything looks great to me. You think we’ll be here long?” 

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“Hm?” Thomas looked up from his phone, “oh thank you, baby.” he  said as he reached for the coffee. “No I imagine he’s in his dressing room? Or maybe calling my dad?” He shrugged as he took a sip. “I wasn’t sure you were coming over, nice surprise.”

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Miguel walked onto the set and looked around for Thomas as he held the two coffees in his hand. Spotting his husband he smiled and walked over to hand him one before giving him a kiss on the cheek.

“Hey baby” he smiled and looked around “the P.A. said you and your dad are needed on set in 15 minutes” he told him and took the seat next to him “Have you seen him yet? He was supposed to be here half an hour ago”

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“Can’t fault you there” Edmund responded “maybe one of the reasons I do my best not to look at the news if I can help it” As they made their way down the corridor Edmund looked back at Buck “I do have to ask what made you choose this school, not that we aren’t thrilled to have you, but a professor of your caliber could probably have his pick of universities to attend”

He laughed “True, and they take full advantage” After taking his seat next to the other Edmund looked at them “This school is pretty selective so the number of students that attend is fairly low and since it is so far away from the nearest city and airports they tend to remain here through holidays and breaks. Hence, the Dean wants to make it feel like family and he believes involving the students in the day to day activities is a way to accomplish that. No matter how much the students don’t want to”

“I was recruited. I don’t really do this for the tenure or anything like that, in fact, I’m not sure how much longer I’ll do it for but I get some offers here and there and this one seemed nice enough. I’ve also never been to this side of the country during this season, thought it could be nice to see something new.”

Buck nodded, it was a bit more hands-on than he himself would have liked as a student, but he wasn’t the dean and had no intentions of questioning him either. “fair enough.” He sat down, crossing one leg over the other and folding his arms across his chest, “well here’s to a good semester.”

He looked around the room quietly as it began to fill up. There were all sorts of characters making their way in, yet it still felt like a heavy air lingered; as though they all knew something that people outside these walls didn’t. 

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