Title: Overwatch
Author: Harper Kingsley
World: Kanon-verse
Character: Warrick Reidenger Tobias, Caspian Dukes
Genre: superhero, angst, friendship, major illness
Warrick Reidenger Tobias was packing for a business trip to Chicago when it felt as though the world suddenly whirled around him. He staggered against the bed, dropping the navy silk tie he held as his hand lost all strength. Multicolor lights flared behind his eyes.
He didn’t realize he’d dropped until his knees hit the floor. His head bounced against the carpet. His body twitched and shivered uncontrollably.
It was his first seizure.
It wasn’t his last.
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The doctors didn’t know what was wrong with him. Dozens of specialists and days spent in drafty paper gowns having his blood sucked out by needles and his brain scanned by machines. He felt like a lab experiment.
And at the end of it all, there were still no answers, just speculation.
He hated feeling helpless. But there was nothing he could do.
So he continued with his life and pretended that everything was all right. As though faking normal would *make* everything normal.
He did such a good job at pretending that he started believing it after awhile. As though the past few weeks had been a dream and he was finally awake.
He was free to go about his regularly scheduled life of superheroing and presiding over a large and powerful company.
And then there was another seizure and another one and another one, so rapid and close together that he didn’t recognize what was happening until after the third one, the BIG one. The one where he finally had to admit there was a problem because Caspian had seen and just wouldn’t let it go.
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SCENE: Caspian talking to him, telling him to go get checked out. Warrick … Read the rest ““Overwatch 01” by Harper Kingsley”