Just How It Is

His decision to help Lisa when he saw her in such danger might have been ill-advised, or reckless, or any number of negative words combined with disappointed frowns. Dennis had been in the Wards long enough to have such reactions memorized from his so-called 'superiors'. It'd started with naming himself Clockblocker on live TV, sure… but when you're a guy like Dennis, you don't just STOP there.

Regardless of his experience with no end of verbal reamings, Dennis just didn't care what anyone might think of his decision to act, this time around. Especially since he was relaxing with a cute, naked blonde in his arms even now, curled close to his chest and slumbering peacefully as she slept off the stress of nearly being kidnapped from her own apartment, combined with the sheer exhaustion of the marathon run of sex they'd both just engaged in. Dennis wasn't tired at all, but he was quite happy to simply lay there with Lisa in his arms, letting her get some rest. Watching her sleep… well, it wasn't creepy in these circumstances, now was it? It was more romantic than anything else. A dopey grin spreads across Dennis' face and he blushes a bit at THAT particular thought. Before meeting Taylor and Lisa, he'd never thought he could HAVE an actual romance. Any girl he ever dated… he'd be too tempted to do naughty things to them while in time stop, but that would just give away his identity as Orgasmo, and then he'd be arrested in no time. And if he DID date, or god forbid, marry a girl without ever doing using his powers with her, it would be because he didn't really love her, it would be to give himself a 'beard' so to speak, as strange as that sounded. Dennis couldn't go back to a normal love life after using his powers for such depraved debauchery. He was a perverted teenage boy, and even if he eventually stopped being a teenage boy, the young man knew he would ALWAYS be perverted. He'd despaired of ever forming that close of an attachment to any woman, and now that he could look back, in hindsight Dennis had amped up his use of his power for sexual purposes in an effort to drown out the crushing loneliness trying to overtake his every thought. Really, at one point he'd stopped time and hiked all the way over to another high school, just to fuck every single girl in the place silly. At the time, he'd done it to prove a point… but in truth, wasn't it more obvious that he'd done it because he was trying to ignore the truth staring him in the face? It wasn't the truth anymore though. Dennis' power had either evolved, or it'd always been like this and he'd simply not quite understood how to use it properly. Regardless, he could now pull others into his time stop. He could share his power with those closest to him. And before he'd discovered THAT, he'd already developed a relationship with both Taylor and Lisa. They hadn't hated him for his power, in truth they'd LOVED him for it, until eventually getting to know the real him. Now, Dennis found himself hoping they'd love him for him going forward. … Was he really contemplating a permanent three-way relationship with two young women? "Yes… yes you are." Dennis' eyes snap down to Lisa, but the sleepy blonde is smiling up at him, not an ounce of disapproval on her face. Her lips curl into a slightly more vulpine smirk, and she reaches out to press her index finger to his nose. "… Boop. Hehe~" Blinking as his eyes go crossed for a moment to follow the finger, Dennis stares down at Lisa slightly nonplussed. "Uh… Lisa, you okay?" That gets a derisive snort from the blonde, followed by some snickering. Dennis holds the girl as she shakes in his arms, only to realize eventually that she's crying. Grimacing, Dennis doesn't really know what to do… but he's smart enough to realize that letting go at this point would be cruel. He pulls Lisa all the closer, rubbing soothing circles into the Thinker's back as she sobs it all out into his chest. Eventually though, the tears run out and Lisa pulls back on her own accord, letting out a low, shuddering breath. "… Thank you, Dennis. I… I really needed this. All of it. And even if Taylor isn't game, I'm not going anywhere, anytime soon." Dennis flushes at the Thinker's blunt words, even as Lisa looks at him with a smoldering gaze and a heartfelt promise in her eyes. Swallowing the lump in his throat, the red head nods slowly. "O-Okay… Okay. That's um, good. Very good." Lisa grins. "Stating the obvious there, don't you think?" A laugh leaves Dennis lips and he sighs, shaking his head ruefully at the girl. Then, together the two of them sit up and look around. Dennis almost immediately comes to an obvious conclusion. "I need to help you find a safe place to hide out. You can't go back to any of the places Coil might find you in." Lisa slowly nods, even as she looks around the abandoned office building they're in with pursed lips. Finally, the blonde turns to Dennis and shrugs, spreading her arms wide. "I think you already did, Dennis. Needs to amenities of course, but as isolated as this place is? It might just be our best bet for a hideaway." That gets another blink from Dennis as he gives the place a look around again as well. Well, they'd both apparently considered it livable enough to fuck in, so that spoke to it being livable enough to LIVE in as well. Slowly, the young man begins to see it as he nods in agreement. "Yeah… yeah, you're right." "Of course I'm right, Dennis. When am I not?" Lisa's vulpine smirk as she runs her fingers through her blonde hair and considers everything for a moment just makes Dennis smile. He's rapidly falling in love with this girl, if he hasn't already. "… There's just some things I'll need first. And you're going to help me get them." Heh, damn if she wasn't bossy though… -x-X-x- Thomas Calvert, otherwise known as the supervillain Coil, sat back in his chair and brooded. He wouldn't have called it brooding, to be fair, but that was most certainly what he was doing. The snake-themed villain was in the depths of his base… but if he was being perfectly honest, he no longer felt safe even here. It felt like the walls were closing in on him, despite never experiencing an ounce of claustrophobia before now. But then, it was hard to feel safe after one learned they'd inadvertently attracted the attention of a parahuman with the ability to stop time at will. It was perhaps the most broken, ridiculous power Coil had ever heard of… and not just because it outright countered his own parahuman ability. No, given that stopping time would counter MOST powers, that particular reason wasn't where Coil's fear stemmed from. As soon as Lisa had disappeared out of her apartment with the people he'd sent to retrieve her left in… compromising positions in the back of their own truck, Coil had made moves to bring in the Undersider that his pet Thinker had been spending the most time with. Skitter, also known as Taylor Hebert, had proven a tough nut to break, but with some extrajudicial activities in a disposable timeline, he'd eventually gotten there. He'd still had to grab her three times by this point. The first timeline, she'd been stubborn enough to die before revealing anything. Or perhaps his man had simply been a little too zealous. Reigning in the torturer and taking a slightly more hands-on approach in the second timeline had given him more information. Taylor had broken, and she'd talked. Hell, she'd eventually sung like a canary after sufficient motivation. Lisa and Taylor had run afoul of Brockton Bay's less-than-frightening boogeyman, Orgasmo. Coil had never paid the perverse cape much thought, mostly because his actions were relatively harmless, at least to the snake-themed villain's operations. And his power had always seemed relatively harmless as well. The kind of ability a deviant would have and use to get his jollies off. It seemed everyone was wrong though. Orgasmo's power wasn't harmless, or weak. Orgasmo could stop time however he liked, and he was apparently using it to fuck women while they were frozen in place and defenseless. It was… such a waste, but that didn't make Coil any less afraid now. He'd sent his goons after Lisa in the primary timeline, expecting no problems with bringing her in for a small talk. He hadn't intended to torture, rape, and kill her this go around like he did in his secondary timelines, so it hadn't seemed necessary to split things off. But in hindsight, his blunder was obvious and if Lisa hadn't revealed his existence and his role in her life of villainy by this point, this… Orgasmo would certainly know about it now. Coil was exposed, completely and utterly. However… Thomas Calvert wasn't. Licking his lips, the snake-themed villain rises from his chair. He does this in both timelines, as a matter-of-fact. While the real Coil begins to make plans in the primary timeline, the Coil in the secondary timeline leaves his office behind and moves down the hall to where a certain bug-controller is in the midst of an… interrogation. Stepping into the room, Coil makes eye contact with one Taylor Hebert as the sweaty, exhausted young woman shakes and spasms in her bindings, the drugs used on her very nearly sending her over the edge into an overdose. "Hello Taylor. Thank you for corroborating that information." It'd been easier, this third time around, to break the girl. All it'd taken was a few dropped hints from Creep, and this Taylor had realized quickly that Coil already knew everything he wanted her to tell him. Once she'd figured that out, the pain and agony that had been inflicted on her seemed much worse than simply telling him secrets he already knew. Now here Coil stood, his head cocked to the side as Taylor's exhausted face twisted into hatred. "You… f-fuck you. He'll c-come for me… you'll see… he'll come for me." The snake-themed villain grins, from ear to ear. Then, he reaches for his crotch. Taylor's eyes follow, and then widen as Coil pulls down a zipper there, letting his half-hard member flop out. He would probably be fully erect at this point, if not for the fear of Orgasmo showing up still present in his mind. Still, even now the Coil in the primary timeline was making moves towards keeping that from coming to pass, and every minute that went by without alarms going off or something untoward happening, Coil was relaxing more and more. "What the f-gah!! Agghhh!!!" As Coil steps forward, his gloved hand around his cock, lightly stroking it, Creep, his ever-loyal servant, comes up behind Taylor and forces the spider gag in his hands straight into the girl's open mouth. Stretching out her jaw in the process, Creep secures the gag in place, and Coil smirks as he steps forward. It's the work of a single moment to pull Taylor's head down to level with his crotch. And then, he's in the girl's mouth, and right down her throat as he slams his cock through the gag and begins to face fuck her right then and there. "Gagkh! Gagkh! Gagkh!" As he does so, Coil can't quite help but monologue. In situations like this, it's always a little fun to inform his victims of their fate. "No one is coming for you, Taylor Hebert." Creep leaves the room in that moment, and Coil finally has privacy with his darling captive. Good, he couldn't give out this next truth to even his most loyal subordinate. The man would probably react just as he expected dear Taylor to react. "Gagkh! Gagkh! Gagkh!" "My power… it allows me to choose two paths. What we're in right now… this is what I call the secondary timeline. It could be the primary, if I ever chose to make it as much… but it won't be. Do you know why?" Taylor's eyes are filled with unshed tears and hatred as she looks up into his mask. Coil grins a little wider, enjoying the slobber covering the poor girl's face. "It's rather simple, really. I haven't brought you here in the primary timeline. The other you is blissfully unaware of what's happening to you right now. And it will remain that way. If Orgasmo were to show up in this moment, then this timeline would end. Your existence, would end. Because, you're not really Taylor Hebert. You're no one and nothing. You're in MY world now. And it ends when I say it does!" Watching the dawning horror and existential fear in the young woman's eyes makes Coil all the harder, even as he continues to rail her throat. With a growl, he pulls out of her esophagus and her mouth entirely, and a moment later he's pushing the bound, helpless girl onto the ground, face first with her hips lifted up in the air. Her cunt is already exposed from the torture, her pussy lips puffy and red from the pain that Creep had delivered to them. Coil's slobber-covered cock goes in dry, and Taylor screams through the spider gag as the snake-themed villain fucks her, deep and hard. He snarls and growls and takes out every bit of frustration on the set of holes before him. This isn't Taylor Hebert. Taylor Hebert is either a threat or a resource that could very well still have uses. This? This is just a piece of meat for him to abuse to his heart's content. And that's exactly what Coil does, until finally he cums inside of her, pumping his seed deep inside of the poor, bound girl's womb. Afterwards, after he pulls out of her loosened cunt, Coil drags Taylor to her knees by her hair, forcing the girl to look into his mask one last time. She manages to keep up the expression of hatred and anger, right until he grins and waves the fingers of his other hand at her. "Goodbye." There's the terror and the fear again, and then he ends the secondary timeline and immediately splits off into a new one as Thomas Calvert smiles, quite satisfied with himself. In the primary timeline, Thomas Calvert has abandoned his Coil costume for the time being. He'll be operating out of a safehouse that he's confident Lisa doesn't know about for the next week, while a body double will be standing in for him with no one else the wiser. If his holdings get tipped off to the PRT, or his mercs and the body double suddenly end up compromised seemingly instantly… maybe, just maybe it'll be time for him to cut his losses and move onto a different city to start over. Preferably one that didn't have a parahuman with the ability to stop fucking time in it.