New Beginnings (closed)

It had been almost three days since Terrance had gotten any decent sleep that wasn't a quick cat nap that lasted ten minutes at max. He wasn't sure how much longer he could stay awake. His brows were furrowed in thought as his eyes kept darting around to see if there was any movements to indicate a monster. While he'd been stuck in that hotel sleep hadn't really been an issue. Apparently he and Thanos had stayed awake for months. Something to do with those flower cookies and magic. Unfortunatley they couldn't use those cookies to stay awake now since they were drugged. It didn't matter that Terrance had grabbed some 'for later'. They sat untouched in a pocket of the knapsack he'd swiped from a car.

That carhad caused him some surprise and a terrible sensation began in his gut. He'd grabbed a paper and then after seeing the date and it processed in his mind he'd angily flung it at Thanos blaming him. He'd been angry at himself as well for giving in thinking it would be okay to treat Thanos at the hotel. That had been a big mistake. Terrance hadn't said a word to the other teen until they'd stolen some clothes off a clothesline and put the cursed hotel behind them going the opposite direction of California. That was one place he did not want to revisit no matter how much other people wanted to go there.

Sliding down to sit on his butt with his back against a large rock, Terrance sighed. This was not good. The bronze sword dropped from his hand as his grip went slack. His upper body tilted amd he was only barely aware of his head hitting something soft and that it wasn't the ground.

Thanos hadn't done more than doze now and then. He was really worried about Terrance. The other wasn't exactly "muscle" nor a fighter. He was a brilliant strategist and mastermind but Terrance wasn't a heavy hitter. He tended to be built like a tank and ready to duke it out with anyone no matter who it is. He had his pros and cons too. He was actually still wide awake and energetic too. He looked at Terrance a bit. He watched him silently at the moment. He could see so much tension in Terrance.

He didn't like seeing that tension there. Looking at the male as he grabbed a paper. He had caught the paper. He saw the anger and accepted the anger and blame. Despite he did know it wasn't his fault. He looked confused at the date on the paper. "Terrance? Is this real?" He asked. Moving over to him and after a bit of struggle been forced into clothing and took off with him. He still had the newspaper. Yet terrance wouldn't listen to him. He walked over to him. "Terrance?" He asked. He had acquired along the way a bag and more supplies. He had his own bag of things like tools and other tinkerings he did.

He had small weapons he'd made but still he couldn't get Terrance to answer him. Moving once he saw Terrance tilitng. he was sitting silently beside him. Looking at the other male and hoped he would say something again. "Terrance please answer me..." he begged with puppy like gaze on him. He moved his arm around Terrance. "Rest please its my turn. I'll protect you forever Terrance." He repromised him silently. He looked around and had a sword beside him...he forged it after they gathered some interesting materials in other locations. It was really effective on most monsters.

Too tired to protest or open his eyes, Terrance sunk into sleep yet even then his face didn't relax completely. He'd learned that sleep was never a good thing since they always brought about dreams so didn't like to sleep unless he absolutely had to. He always looked forward to those rare moments when he had no dreams at all. Sleeping also meant being vulnerable and slow to act if a monster decided to attack. While traveling he'd had to sleep and Thanos had stood guard then, it didn't mean that Terrance had trusted him completely, more like he had no other choice and it was the lesser of the two evils. Not to say that he didn't trust the other teen, but it was rather complicated. It had been ever since a strange little boy had clung onto him and promised to protect him after declaring declaring, "I like you." Terrance had just thought Thanos was a little weirdo who had no concept of personal boundaries.

His concept of personal boundaries was still non existant, but Terrance had gotten used to it. While traveling they'd had to huddle together to keep warm before Thanos had figured out how to get a frie going even when it was raining. He'd come to rely on Thanos and part of Terrance did not like that. That was why he'd only grudgingly allow himself to sleep deeply every now and then. Because of pushing himself this was one of those times.

The cyclops was hungry. It had been driven away from the major city by bigger and meaner cyclops' and monsters. It was only around seven feet tall and was a growing cyclops. So it had been eating small things that it could pick off. It had tasted demigod and had decided that they were pretty tasty. Something that smelt like a demigod was this way so it kept following the scent. Just the thought of having something tasty and flavorful like a demigod had its stomach juices already running. Some clever sneaky mortals had already gotten out of his trap he'd laid for them tricking him. He didn't like tricky humans. Smiling when it caught a whiff of dinner, he snuck (as quietly as a cyclops could) towards the delicious smell.

"CAUGHT YOU!" he bellowed smashing his club down on what he'd thought would be an unsuspecting prey. Blinking when he didn't have anything but a smashed boulder.