Weary
Dr Flug x Reader
Stealing my sister’s bf’s HBO password is the second best thing I’ve done this week. Whipping up a solid drabble in 30 minutes and refining it into a whole oneshot in the same night takes first place.
There’s like, one innuendo towards the end but everything else is straight up fluff. Story came to me after reading yet another shady thing a certain airline I won’t name did, but it sounds like “we ain’t going”. I am changing the names so I don’t end up dead in a van somewhere, but if you know you know ;)
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“…And then what happened?”, Flug yawns, looking up at you through his goggles. You smile gently, kissing the front of the bag where his forehead would be.
“Well, according to some sources…the former production and safety manager’s exact words were ‘if anything happens, I didn’t do it myself’,” you respond, reading the article off your phone. Using the same soft voice you use when you read picture books to a sleepy 505, except it was a news article turned Wikipedia rabbit hole.
You two had gone from listening to him explain the differences between a 767 and an Airvan, to him resting his bagged head in your lap as you click on various entries and articles, bouncing information back and forth. The person, a known whistleblower who had retired from the controversial airline a few years ago, had tried many a time to draw attention to the company’s shady practices. For him to die so suddenly, especially as more inside secrets came to light, was too fishy for the public to ignore.
“I’m no detective, but…”
“Assassination?”, you finished for him, raising a brow. The two of you exchanged knowing looks.
“Does the Dreamweaver have flexible wings?”, he grumbles, wrapping his arms around your waist to bury his head further into your tummy. It tickles, but you try not to laugh lest you disturb his rare peace. Moments like these didn’t happen often, and you knew if any of the others were to see you like this, Black Hat would tear you both a new one, and Demencia would never let you hear the end of it.
A few more minutes go by, occasionally filled in with fun facts about the company’s various other incidents that had made the news in the past. You click off of yet another one where a plane was literally falling apart mid-air, having to make an emergency landing in a massive blaze. That was enough internet for today, at this rate you’d never want to hop in a plane again. You carefully set your phone to the side after checking the time.
“If I were him, I wouldn’t have let them get me.”
“I know, Flug.”
“And I would have documented everything.”
“Mhm”, you rest a hand on his back, your own eyes growing heavy.
“I’d go down there and put them back together myself. I’d personally take all of their shitty scrap parts, and make a better airplane than any of those so called professionals,” he says disdainfully.
You smile as he heaves a long sigh, like the weight of the world rests upon his weary shoulders; which isn’t far from the truth, if the way Black Hat nags him and Demencia torments him on a regular basis is any indication. Not to mention raising a son/care bear/science experiment through it all. But even if it’s not quite the whole earth, at the very least it’s the whole company. Everybody ought to give him more credit, himself included.
“If anybody could do such a thing, I know it’d be you, Flug. You’ve always had a brilliant mind.” He hums softly at the praise, feeling quite chuffed to know that at least someone in the manor besides his own son appreciated him not just for all he does, but who he is.
It’s quiet again for a few moments as he drifts in and out of consciousness, your hand gently rubbing his back until he speaks up again a few minutes later.
“And I’ll make you my co-pilot.”
This takes you by surprise, the hand rubbing his back stopping briefly as you let the words settle over the two of you. Reading between the lines was something you found yourself doing almost as often as reading his expression through his paper bag, the man still not quite comfortable enough to outright say all the things he’d had bouncing around in his head to you just yet. Your hand resumes as you test the waters, stuck between delicate hope and fear of possibly scaring him off.
“I…don’t know how to fly a plane. Nor do I have a pilots license.”
“Me neither, but I’ll show you how to do it in the cockpit. I’ll make sure you have a smooth ride for your first time.”
A pregnant pause falls over the both of you, and your whole face heats up, mind processing his words only to take a nosedive into the gutter. You open your mouth to respond only to be met with quiet snores from below, Flug blissfully unaware of the effect of his words.
‘Looks like the week finally caught up to him’, you think. Odds are he might not remember something like that when he woke up, but you could tease him about it later on. For now, you stretch your arms over your head and attempt to make yourself as comfy as possible without disturbing him, sleep beginning to overtake you as well. You glance down once more to where he dozes peacefully for the first time in years, committing it to memory before joining him in slumber.
“Buenas noches, Flug.”
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Villainous Theory: Black Hat Heals Flug
Alan mentions Black Hat can heal you, but with pain and with a malicious intent.
Evidence to show that is in Episode 3, where despite Flug's body being injured and he was unable to move after his fight with Demencia, but he was able to move to detain Mascara Macabra after being painfully wacked by Black Hat's cane.
And even walk fine and even enjoy a nice vacation with 5.0.5 and Demencia afterwards without showing signs that he was ever injured.
Another possible evidence of Black Hat healing Flug was when he stepped on Flug after he was injured after successfully switching off Hat Manor's security in one of the shorts. It was not shown, but I theorised that he might be fine and healed aftwards.
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Going back to what was mentioned, Alan said that Black Hat heals you with pain, that was shown in these two evidences.
He also does it with malicious intent. So heals Flug obviously not to be nice 😂 but because Flug is less useful and productive evil henchman to him when he is injured and waiting for him to heal naturally is a waste of time.
So he just basically use his painful healing method to heal him but just not make a big deal of it.
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I wonder what's Flug's first reaction thr first time Black Hat heals him? Like an invention or an experiment went wrong and Black Hat just whacks him with a cane and all his bones healed and Black Hat pretends like he didn't do anything.
I kinda imagine Flug, despite the initial pain would be profusely thanking his boss for his kindness, causing Black Hat to give Flug a demonic death glare and turn into a monstrous form, saying he healed Flug's bones because if Flug had to wait for his bones to heal naturally, it would hinder his work and productivity for Black Hat Organisation not out for kindness and says that he will inflict an injury a million fold if Flug ever accuses him of a disgusting thing like that ever again. Flug scared and fearing for his life, just agrees to whatever Black Hat says and just begs him not to kill him, resulting Black Hat to turn back to his human like form and yells Flug to get back to work before leaving.
Hence, every time Black Hat heals him Flug, he just accepts the pain before the healing takes effect and just continues his work without acknowledging the act and pretending like nothing happened.
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