stands_for_hope: (baby!clark: pissed)
Clark Kent ([personal profile] stands_for_hope) wrote2015-05-26 08:10 pm

The Double K Farm for At Risk Youth - How it Starts

It had been a hard year for the Kents.

The loss of a father, a husband, had hollowed out mother and son, though thankfully they'd managed to make due on the farm between the both of them. But that was just the financial parts. The farm felt empty without Jonathon Kent, their home felt empty, and Clark...

Clark was so angry with everyone, with everything. It wasn't fair.

He could do so many things, so many things, but he hadn't been able to do anything when his father's heart had given out. He hadn't been able to do anything when Jonathon Kent had dropped dead in a field while Clark was at school. He'd just been there to get pulled into the office, take the phonecall from his mother.

It was doubly hard to go through his days now. Before, there'd been a bit of a barrier between the people who liked to tease him; Jonathon Kent had been respected and folks had looked out for Clark because of it. They still looked for him, but now it was more about sympathy and less of a willingness to put themselves between him and trouble.

That's why he was here. Twelve years old, pushed against a chain link fence, holding onto the fence pole for their sake as much as his own. Anger boiled up inside him, anger enough to make his eyes start to lighten to red, anger enough to make him want to do things he couldn't do, shouldn't do. Because people were mean and cruel and they picked on weakness like a pack of jackals, even if the weakness was feigned.

I can't do it. I can't hurt anyone.

It was like a screen door trying to hold back a tidal wave. He was shaking and his eyes were so hot. He just hoped he could hold on long enough for them to get bored. Long enough for someone to wander by. He just had to hold on.
justakidfrombrklyn: (preserum: i would catch a grenaaaade for)

[personal profile] justakidfrombrklyn 2015-06-26 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Steve reached over to try and catch him but he'd been stuffing pancake in his face and he'd missed him. He made a grumbly noise and rolled his eyes a little.

Bucky needed to eat!
longdaysknight: (smirky smile)

[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-26 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't worry about him," Michael smiled. "He'll be back in a minute. I'll go greet our company." And then he'd come back to eat - because he wasn't done yet, either.

And indeed, out at the end of the driveway, the van was starting to approach, Neala behind the wheel again. It parked again where it had the day before, and equipment was already floating out into place where it had been the evening before. There was, however, a quiet disagreement over a new scorch mark on the van's interior, which Meghan was apologising for profusely. "I really, really didn't mean to!" she was saying, and Neala was sighing.

"Not to give you a hard time, but you've got to be careful with those sparklers of yours."
longdaysknight: (smartass car)

[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-26 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ahdri's feet weren't touching the ground - as usual, though she was directing the placement of the equipment with her long, delicate fingers. "She's just excited," the psychic murmured in her odd, echo-y way.

"I know," Neala exhaled, "but her excitement left a burn mark in the headliner and I'm the one who has to explain it."

Mike listened - and then he suppressed a laugh.
justakidfrombrklyn: (preserum: little smile)

[personal profile] justakidfrombrklyn 2015-06-26 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Steve giggled a little from his spot at the door, hoping they didn't notice him watching all of it.

Inside, Clark smiled a little to himself and gave Mike's hand a squeeze.
secondtry: (gentle (sometimes))

[personal profile] secondtry 2015-06-26 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Mike returned the squeeze, pulling himself over to Clark and resting his chin on Clark's shoulder. "You're gonna be awesome today."

But with everything set up - even a computer, which had an awning erected over it - the assortment of newcomers headed toward the house. Meghan and her purple skin and hair, Ahdri and her thinness, Emin who carefully walked at a normal speed, Bani who was somewhere between male and female, and Neala, who dwarfed them all.
longdaysknight: (open smile)

[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-26 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Michael was walking up the steps with them and took the door to wave them inside. "Come on in. Martha made some great quiches, and I made some pancakes. There's a pot of coffee on and we can always make more."

"Thank you," said Meghan, trying to rein in her emotions to a grin, but there were still little sparkles floating around her hair in all different colours.
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[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-26 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I had a very good night," Bani answered. "And I think the others did, too. I didn't hear much in the way of tossing and turning, anyway."

"Well as I ever sleep away from home," Emin agreed.

Bucky was trotting down the stairs, book and pencils in hand to place in Steve's lap. Just in time, it looked like.
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[personal profile] kolodnoykovki 2015-06-26 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Bucky gave Steve a gentle nudge to make sure he'd look up.

The five who were being introduced, though, waved as their names were said, though Ahdri did float over to glance over his shoulder with curiosity. "Oh, you're doing very well," she whispered. "You have a good eye."
justakidfrombrklyn: (preserum: reading)

[personal profile] justakidfrombrklyn 2015-06-26 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Steve snorted a little at the idea that his eyes were good, but he smiled up at her, thankful for the compliment.

"Thanks. I love to draw. Buck'll tell you, it's practically a compulsion."

Beat.

"Your hair reacts interestingly to gravity."
longdaysknight: (smartass car)

[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-26 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I can make it do other things."

And she did. Behind her, her hair started to move as if she were in water instead of in air, floating and swirling, moving with invisible currents.
justakidfrombrklyn: (cute face)

[personal profile] justakidfrombrklyn 2015-06-26 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
His eyes went a little wide as he watched her hair, and then he was bent over the notebook.
longdaysknight: (joking smile)

[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-26 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
With a soft, truly silvery, childlike giggle, Ahdri drew up her knees midair, one arm hugging them, the other over her mouth.

It was Emin whose smile glowed wide. "She loves doing tricks with her hair," he said. "You've just made her day."
justakidfrombrklyn: (drawing)

[personal profile] justakidfrombrklyn 2015-06-26 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Steve looked up from sketching out the first fluid lines of her hair and stared for a few moments.

"It's so pretty..."
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[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-27 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you," she smiled happily - and not too far away, Bucky was trying to figure out why he felt so weird about where Steve's attention was going.
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[personal profile] secondtry 2015-06-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mike watched, but shook his head at Clark's questioning glance. This was something they'd have to figure out on their own - and Ahdri wasn't stupid. She lightly touched Steve's head and gave him a smile, but no more than that, and the gesture calmed Bucky down.

"It's a good exercise," she said. "I learned it a very long time ago. It... helps. Sometimes."
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[personal profile] kolodnoykovki 2015-06-27 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"She looks like a mermaid," Bucky said, approving with a nod. And Mike glanced over at Clark. Problem averted, it seemed like.
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[personal profile] longdaysknight 2015-06-27 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Neala laughed aloud, reaching over to ruffle Steve's hair enthusiastically. "Look at this little one. He knows what he's talking!" And then she was answering like she'd never paused, telling him about her home and her family back across the pond.

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