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Illya Kuryakin ([personal profile] fight_them_all) wrote2017-09-22 07:29 pm
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With a watch strung loosely on his wrist

Panic was a living thing.

It clawed through his belly, leaving him to hiccup and curl his fingers tight around the watch he held in his hand. Held against his chest, but so tightly that its edges bit into his small palm and left an impression behind that was sure to last for weeks.

He had found himself standing on a street corner, on the edge of a street, a world he did not recognize. No sign he had seen made sense. The letters were at once angular and too rounded, and the longer he stared at them the less they made sense. Those were letters that belonged to strange letters he had not understood. Belonged to a place that was not his home and did not exist in any lesson he had been taught save that of the amorphous threat that lived outside of his city's borders.

His uniform was sweltering. His coat and hat far too heavy for the temperate weather.

A nine year old Illya Kuryakin.

Lost and alone.
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[personal profile] codenamekolibri 2017-11-01 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not know. This is my future, but is it yours too?” He has moved on to the kitchen by the time he answers Illya, but his his voice still manages to convey concern even if his facial expression can’t be seen. When he returns, an orange in one hand and a glass of water in the other, he has switched to frowning as he thinks over the problem of the other boy. He exchanges the fruit for the identification card, feeling incredibly magnanimous and even a little powerful. It isn’t every day that you can give someone a gift like that.

You can stay here if you want to. There is room and it is safe, I know that. And there is lots of food. Even if it is only just until you know what to do next. I promise I will not tell anyone.