Chapter Text
Thragg looks at the unconscious man in front of him his hands cuping his head looking deep into his eyes that are rolled back into his skull, for a moment there is only silence
Thragg closes his eyes and lets go of the man's head letting him float away slowly. He puts his hands to his side and looks at Kregg commanding "take him back to the ship and heal him".
Kregg looks at Thragg eyes wide flowing a few inches towards him "b-but grand region he-" " He is the only successful attempt. I will not repeat my words".Kregg looks at Anissa and nodes.
_____________
Mark eyes slowly open eye leds heavy and vision blurry he looks around trying to make out where he's at . He attempts to lift his arm up to rub his tumble ,but the pain shots out from his shoulder blade up his arm to his elbow , Mark grants and flips his head to his side.
He looks around his room . It's almost in an all white room with some beeping machines to both his sides and an IUV in his left arm draping slowly.
He is laying on what looks like a hospital bed, with a blanket on his body that his arms are resting above, he then notices that he has a breathing mask on.
He's still in pain but it Subsides a little bit bring him some relief. He thinks he's safe and out of danger.
He than remembers his brother and father and panic starts to raise in his chest he quickly floats up and fly himself to the door. Ripping off his mask and IUV in the process.
But the door doesn't open, it usually opens on its own . He searches for a switch or a batten or anything to open the door..... but nothing is there.
He starts to panic . He rises his head ignoring the pain and knocks a few times, he parts his lips, throat dry "h-hey is .. is anyone there?" "Please.... anyone?". Suddenly the door slides open . Mark lets out a sigh of relief before looking up at the figure . His eyes widen and faec pales more than it already was .
He takes a few steps back stumbling on his own feet pain shooting through his eyes from the bright lights.
Thragg stands there looking at him , frown on his face eyes locked into his, looking, studying.
Mark quickly squares up , one fist to his head and the other to his abdomen. He looks at him rage in his eyes . He knows he's in no condition to fight, but there's not much he can do .
Thragg looks at the pathetic display in front of him , before rising a hand "I'm not here to fight" . He looks at Mark taken by surprise , but he didn't falter .
"Where's Oliver..WHERE'S dad ...what did you do to them?" Mark says fist still to his face.
Thragg looks at him face softening, his hand drops to his side "No harm his been done to them ,they aren't aboard this ship"
Mark relaxes a bit lowering his fist to his mouth and relaxing his shoulders "than what are you planning on doing with me?....imprison me? Torcher me? Execut me?" Marks voice betraying him with a crak. His feet starts to shake pain over taking his body.
Thragg looks at him realising the blood dripping from his arm where the IUV used to be.
Marks vision starts to go blurry. He steps back before filling into the bad , he looks up to see that Thragg is in front of his face, Mark didn't even see him move ,in his hand he's holding an object Mark looks closely. It was a fruit juice box open and all.
Thragg looks at his , he extends the box to him "this will do for now , you are weak you need to replenish your strength".
Mark dutiful pushes the box away. Thragg looks at Mark with a frown appearing on his face "this is for your health. I won't fours you to, but I won't tolerate it for long".
Mark with his throbbing head and aching body didn't have the energy to fight. Holding on to a slither of hop that he can still escape, but for that he has to play nice .So with out thinking he started to suck the juice from the Plastic Straw in Thragg's hand.
Thragg was taken back by the young man's actions. With a look of shock on his face that Mark failed notice .
Thragg takes Mark's hand and puts the juice box in it and looking at Mark with a look of disappointment.
Mark realising what he had done looks down in embarrassment. Face flashed and hands clutching the juice box.
Thragg just turns away back facing Mark and walks off exiting the room.
Mark sites there with his embarrassment before recovering quickly. It was no time for this he looks around for some form of escape. Where was non and even if there was he didn't know where he is or how he's going to make it home on his own .
But than a he feels a breeze, realisation dawns on him he is fully nude. Both the embarrassment and sham are shown on his face.
_________
After some time Thragg returns to see Mark has wrapped the blanket on his waist and chest,bowled up in a corner of the room arms on his knees look at him with a look of embarrassment mixed with anger.
Mark looks at Thragg's figure standing in the door frame holding some folded clothes in his hands, he leys them neatly on the bad and look over at Mark.
Mark noticed that it is a viltrumite uniform . He shakes his head pointing at them "I'm not going to wear that .I'M NOT LIKE YOU" .
Thragg looks at him and says in the most unbothered expression "then you can rome around naked if you wish or in your underwear if it suits you better " .Mark looks at Thragg with shocked eyes and says "you're joking, are you being serious? ", Thragg looks at Mark with an unwavering expression and leaves the room.
Mark looks at the clothes like they could bite him at any second, but with a heavy heart he gets up abandoning his blanket and grabs the clothes, he slips them on and they feel similar to his super hero custom , but he feels uncomfortable about the shale .
Mark walks to the door that opened this time to find Thragg standing in front of him he looks at Mark with an approving look on his face.
Thragg turns his back on him "fallow me" he says looking back at Mark and then starts to walk down the hallway, Mark fallows him , but is falling behind because of the pain he is feeling in his back and lags, he's trying his best not to make any noise.
But then a gron escapes his mouth and he stops walking before covering his mouth with his hands as his face flushes a shed of a pinkish red.
Thragg look over at the flustered man and with a sight says "you can fallow me flying....and please keep control over your vocal cords".
Mark can feel the heat on his neck and faec he wishes Thragg had just killed him already .
______________
They finally arrive at a specific room . The door slides open and they both step in to a huge room with a U shaped table.
Thragg approach it and rivals a screen, it's a health report on Mark it shows him at 70% recovery. Mark looks surprised
Thragg just starts to click and scroll on a few files, Mark didn't know if they were or weren't about him , but he couldn't care , he walk to a window and stairs at the galaxy in front of him.
Thragg looks at him like he's studying him looking for some thing in him.
He looks at a file ....a file of the one time he helped the ston man, over through his boss and all he had to do was tell him a sad story about his family.........
Thragg had a not so good idea on how to get the young man on his side.
If the young viltrumite doesn't like the truth maybe he can twist it a bit , a white lie doesn't hurt anyone.
Thragg looks at Mark who has taken interest in the files he is flipping through, trying to take not so stale peaks.
Thragg takes advantage of this golden opportunity and lens over to his side "I see some thing has peaked your interest "He says trying to sound affectionate ,but what came out instead was a deep humming voice.
Evident on the young man's face was a mix of confusion and surpris . Mark floats a few inches up unaware eyes locked with Thragg's as he's trying to decide if Thragg was mocking him or that was an attempt at flirting.
Mark chose the leader looking at Thragg with a frown on his face eyes glaring at him.
Thragg takes notice and releases that maybe he should treat the man with a bit more dignity, he may be naive ,but not stupid. He changes his approach and instead steps back and gestures him to the screen.
Mark looks confident, but takes the opportunity he was given. He flies over to the screen and starts to swipe with his finger he looks at the files , as he expected they were keeping tabs on him.
He was not surprised by that ,but he was surprised by the fact that they kept the information about his favourite food , hobbies and places.
Mark looks at it for some time before slowly moving his eyes towards Thragg and locked eyes with him .
His face was not exactly frowning but it wasn't happy either with his arms folded on his chest looking at Mark as if waiting for him to finish. Mark's hand was still on the screen when he asked "why do you have this useless information about me? I mean it won't help you in anyway "
Thragg although he agrees with him can't admit it , he pauses for a few seconds before saying "we are not looking for a weapon, we just want you with us a viltrumite , so we can be complete ".
Mark looks at him face showing confusion ,but Thragg continues "Mark it hurts me to lose more of our already dwindling population and wither you like it or not are a viltrumite and I am not giving up on you "
Mark eyebrows fro slightly lips parting showing teeth, looking at Thragg eyes still wide "so you just want me...to join you because...I'm a viltrumite?"
There was a pause for a few seconds before Thragg turned around giving his back to Mark,"yes and it brakes a part of me to hurt any member of my people. I am sure you fell the same"
Mark looks at Thragg's back for a long time , not knowing what to say. Was Thragg maybe like him ,he also doesn't like to see anyone hurt on Earth , wither he knew them or not .....is he agreeing with Thragg?
Mark shakes his head valiantly, he IS not agreeing with Thragg. He IS not a viltrumite, he needs to get himself out of this situation "I need to use the restroom " Mark says eyes down not wanting to make eye contact with Thragg.
_________________
Thragg had escorted Mark to what will be his room and went back to his chamber , taking a seat on his bed looking out of a window, it was not bad for today he managed to get a reaction from Mark that was not anger.
maybe the best way to get the young man on his side is to sympathise with him . He knows that he feels guilty about killing a few people on Earth, so he'll go on that for the time being, but maybe he should appel to him more....
Mark was laying uneasy in his bed he couldn't stop thinking about his dad, Oliver, Debbie and Eve... how are they ,is brother and father alright and...what will his mum and girlfriend think of him.
Mark led on his side guilt and sadness filling him ,he couldn't rest . It all just boil over and he started crying in to his plow, slow ,soft and painful. He cried himself to sleep that night hoping no-one heard him.
This is the lowest point of Mark's life, he hasn't cried this hard ever since his dad left, he spent the entire day looking for an escape with no avail, everything was aconited for he felt so helpless and useless, he couldn't even walk.