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ooo may i suggest hammertooth - 6 F ★? if it strikes you :3

Ficlet Prompt || 6: Amusement park; F: The Jitters; ★: Shield

‘OH FUCKIN’ BOY !!! THE IDEA that POPPED into my brain!

“Hm,” Magnus focused his good eye before him. “This is the uh...Thundercoaster, you said?”

“Yeah!!” Toki took a few enthusiastic steps toward the line, before pivoting to face Magnus with his arms spread. “Isn’t it fuckins awesome?”

“It’s...very...”

“Badass?!” Toki suggested.

“Wooden.”

A wooden roller coaster. Magnus observed it uncertainly. “Norwegians know steel exists, right?”

Magnus wasn’t weak-spined, but the rickety, grey struts visibly shuddered whenever the cars whipped across them. It hurt his teeth to watch. He imagined some damp, ill-kept scaffold somewhere in the network of beams rotting and splintering away.

Waiting to split at any moment.

He knew the feeling, and the idea aggravated a deep anxiety within him.

Toki distracted him by slinging an arm around his shoulders and dragging him into the queue. “You isn’t scareds are you?”

“Scared?” Insulted, Magnus scoffed. “You worry about yourself, buddy.”

Shrugging the comment off, Toki went on to yammer about Kokkosbolle and Krumkake and other Norwegian snacks that Magnus was largely unaware of, and uninterested in. Still, the sound of the young man’s voice was welcome.

Their wait wasn’t long, and soon they were let beyond the gate that separated the line from the ride. The front of the train was empty, and Toki took the opportunity to claim the best view. He waved for Magnus to follow as he slipped into the first car.

‘Just a big kid.’ Magnus thought to himself, letting some humour touch him beside the prickling unease as he climbed in beside.

Settling in, he asked Toki, “have you heard about the Euthanasia Coaster?”

The ride attendant approached them on Magnus’ side. She asked them to lift their arms so that she could lower and lock the safety bar.

Toki stuck his arms up in the air. “Youth in Asia Coaster? What’s thats? Is its in Tokyo Disney?” When the bar was set, he gripped it excitedly, hunkering down the way a child might.

“It’s a roller coaster designed to kill people.”

Toki turned his head a bit, brows scrunching together as he sat a little straighter in his seat. “Huh? How? Does they beheads’ya at the ends or somethins?” His gaze flitted upwards for a moment, lips parting as though considering the imagery. “That’s brutal.”

Magnus frowned as he imagined a post-roller-coaster photo of he and Toki, headless. Perhaps accompanied by other anonymous rider goers, gushing blood from their neck-holes like fountains. Maybe a tacky park logo would be stamped at the bottom. Yikes.

“No,” he cleared his throat, his own fingers tapping at the bar with nervous energy as the roller coaster rolled back by hardly an inch with a heavy clunk, ready to begin the climb. “Hey,” Magnus barked, distracted by the lurch. He turned in his seat like a dog ready to bite, gripping the side of the car as he searched for the attendant. “What was that? I didn’t hear her say we were starting-”

“Relax,” Toki complained, though his voice was clear of annoyance. He gave Magnus’ shoulder a firm pat before letting his heavy hand linger there. The grounding pressure settled Magnus back against the seat. “Whats was you saying?”

The coaster began to crawl forward, and Magnus, always hyper-focused, always thinking - Always overthinking, Toki believed - kept his eyes straight ahead. His long fingers curled around the bar, pale knuckles stretching bone-white. “Er...cerebral hypoxia.”

“Huh?”

“Your brain - it doesn’t get enough oxygen. Sorta like suffocation. It’s apparently a relaxing way to go.”

He could use some relaxing. It sounded cooler when he was going to explain it to Toki in his head, but at the moment, Magnus couldn’t help but wonder about wood rot, and the sound of cracking joists, and-

“Wells, this won’t be that,” Toki laughed. “Maybes some people might gets a heart attack or somethin’ if they’re olds...” Glancing at Magnus again, Toki looked over him with appraising, narrow eyes. “Whens the last time you hads a check up, anyway?”

Magnus felt his eyes roll so hard in their sockets that it almost strained his good vision. “You have some nerve to suggest I’m old when I’m not the one who churned butter as a child.”

“Yous gots a lot to say for someone who forgets his Friendsbook passwords every month.”

“Because I don’t log on. I don’t have friends.” Magnus’ retorted, and when he looked away from Toki, he realized they were at the top of the first incline, peering down the dramatic slope. His breath caught in his throat. Toki’s hand took its place over one of Magnus’, and Magnus looked back.

Toki met him with a brazen smile. “That isn’t true. You gots me, dont you?”

If Magnus could hit pause on time, at any moment, now would be a good one.

Not only to escape the unpleasant descent, but to capture the weightless comfort that smile could give him-

But he couldn’t, and they dropped.

Magnus’ breath was stripped from his lungs but as the cars bent and creaked along the pine rails.

It wasn’t frightening at all. No loops, no thousand foot peaks.

As they swooped, Toki put his free hand up in the air, laughing along to the screaming of strangers behind them.

Magnus flinched each time the ducked below a set of tracks, but his fears were quelled as the roller coaster continued not to crumble below them. His grip on the safety bar eased, but he did nothing to move his hand out from under Toki’s.

Magnus didn’t need protecting. Didn’t need ‘big strong arms’ to keep him warm and safe at night. Didn’t need people to fight for his name, or his cause. He’d been carved of iron, he thought. Strong as steel. Unyielding.

Yet, the gentle cushion of Toki’s distractions shielded Magnus from the paranoid, delusive imaginings of his own mind.

Gave him a place to land. A place in reality.

Climbing a third hill, Magnus took in the rolling view of forests and mountain ranges beyond the park fence, Toki’s laughter in his ears.

If he could hit pause on time, at any moment, now would be a good one.

#lampmeeting #This is late!! But I really enjoyed writing it!!#the shield element is weak but i still like it LMFAO #magtoki #hammertooth #magnus hammersmith #toki wartooth #ficlet #my fics #drabble #idk what the tags i use are #gore mention #thank you!!!#i hope you like it!

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