When Heartbreaker is My Personal Fanboy (WORM: Time-Travel, Weaver!Taylor/Teen!Heartbreaker)

[dhazellouise]

"Swarm! Can I take a picture with you?"

"Hey there Swarm! I bought a shirt from the Protectorate souvenir shop and it got your name on it. Do you mind if I ask you to sign on it for me?"

"Swarm, my all time favorite hero! Here, I brought you some coffee because I was thinking that you need all your energy before you start your patrol."

"Hello Swarm! Guess what?! I made a painting of you the other day and I want to give it to you! Look, I even made you look absolutely fearsome in it!"

"Yo, Swarm! I've got a surprise for you! A big surprise for the most Beautiful Heroine in all of Canada and America combined! I commissioned someone to make an ivory sculpture of you! Am I not your best Fanboy or what?!"

The days following the night raid, Nikos Vasil has started making his presence known to all the Protectorate Heroes and Wards alike that he is Swarm's number one Fanboy. To Taylor's absolute embarrassment. She's been constantly teased by the other capes every time the handsome green-eyed boy drops by the PRT Headquarters to repeatedly asks for Taylor's whereabouts.

Taylor doesn't know what she did to make the boy act like this around her. She figures that saving him has made the boy worships the ground she walks on or it's just simply an act. The boy is just too persistent and annoying that Taylor has started avoiding staying in the PRT Headquarters for long.

Although sometimes she wonders if Heartbreaker is deliberately acting like a complete pest just to simply irritate her because every time she looks into his emerald green eyes, she notices the amusement lurking beneath its depths. Somehow she knows that's another possibility that she needs to look into. She won't let it get past Heartbreaker to pester her for his sheer entertainment.

Sometime later, Taylor is just entering the PRT Headquarters when she instantly hears a familiar voice trying to catch her attention.

"Hey Swarm! I have good news!"

She turns around and instantly freezes at the sight of Nikos Vasil walking towards her. However, what made her freeze at once is the sight of him in a black half-mask and a skin tight black bodysuit that emphasize his tall frame and shows his perfectly fit physique.

Is that cat ears on top of his head? And what the actual fuck?! He even got a long swishing tail behind him to complete his Cat-themed costume! Taylor thinks faintly as she scrutinizes him closely. Then, she slowly meets Heartbreaker's emerald green eyes peering from his black mask that has cat-whiskers on it. What does he want with me now?! Is he trying to impress me with his feline masculinity? Because it is certainly not working for me at all!

"Vasil, what are you doing here and why are you wearing a Cat costume?!" Taylor demands at the tall boy. The future Heartbreaker. "Don't tell me you are a cape now?"

"As a matter of fact I am Swarm," comes Heartbreaker's proud answer while he comes to a halt in front of her. "I am a cape now. I just recently sign in for the Wards today and well I was waiting for you to arrive and tell you the good news."

Taylor immediately stops breathing after listening to Heartbreaker's news.

Heartbreaker is now going to be a fucking hero of the Wards?! Are you fucking kidding me right now?! Is the World Ending?! Perhaps the next thing I will find out is the Golden Man Scion turning out to be a giant space whale from another galaxy? She mentally wonders.

Taylor is reeling from the shock of discovering that Heartbreaker has signed in to become a Hero, instead of becoming the Supervillain he is supposed to be.

Did I just diverted his course of the future? Well, fuck me! Regent is probably not going to be born at all this time around. She thinks worriedly.

"Swarm, you don't seem too happy to hear about me becoming a cape..." is Heartbreaker's remark as he regards her with his seafoam eyes.

"I - am...err...I am just surprise Vasil." Taylor manages to say to him. "You becoming a cape is so sudden. I didn't even know that you triggered…"

"I did trigger. I think it happened during the night raid and when you rescued me and the other victims." the young Heartbreaker tells her. "You might have noticed me acting calm that night but I was actually not. The drugs the slavers pumped us with kept us lucid but susceptible to suggestions. However, that night was a harrowing experience for me to begin with. So somehow I triggered that night and budded from you...Now, I can control cats and other mammals within my range."

Heartbreaker budded from me? And now he can control cats and other mammals? Am I dreaming this? Because what the hell! There is no fucking way that Heartbreaker is a Master over adorable kittens instead of Mastering humans and terrorizing them! She inwardly states.

"Swarm, are you alright? You suddenly seem upset…Aren't you happy for me that I am a cape now?"

At Heartbreaker's uncertain and broken words, plus his soulful green gaze, Taylor feels like she just kick a cute kitten.

Well, Nikos Vasil and a cute kitten might as well be synonymous now with how he currently looks at me while wearing his cat-themed costume and his wide green eyes. Yes, Heartbreaker definitely looks like a harmless, adorable kitten that I just kick. She concludes.

"I apologize. I'm not upset Vasil. I just...errr...This is just simply unexpected," is Taylor's lame comment.

"I know it is unexpected. I just discovered my ability two days ago and I've started experimenting since then. It's only yesterday that I decided to join the Wards…" Nikos informs her.

However, Taylor becomes distracted at the sight of his tail swishing behind him and she wonders if it's real.

"Are your cat ears and tail real?" She inquires curiously as she glances up at the two ears sprouting from his dark hair.

"Yes, they are actually. Other than having a Master power, I have a Brute and Changer ability too." Nikos informs her, almost smugly. "With my Changer ability, I can partially transform some parts of my body to resemble a cat."

Well, shit! He probably is far more dangerous now with those additions. Taylor thinks with dismay.

"Do you want to touch my ears?"

Taylor hears Heartbreaker asks all of a sudden and she can only gape at him at the unexpectedness of his question.

"I...what?!" She blurts out.

"Here," Nikos states right before he grabs Taylor's right hand and place them in one of his pointed furry ears. "You can touch my ears and feel how real they are."

Feeling partly surprised and curious, Taylor allows Nikos Vasil to brush her fingers over his cat ear and she sees how it twitches at the contact. That's when she hears the tall, handsome boy begins to purr softly when her fingers grazes the sharp points of his cute furry ear.

At the sound of his pleased purring, Taylor flushes scarlet and she immediately pull her hand away from his grasp.

Nikos Vasil is now definitely a man-cat and Taylor is afraid that he might start rubbing himself against her leg if she continues to pet him.

The green-eyed boy looks absolutely disappointed when she takes her hand off him, but instantly brightens up when he says, "Do you want to know the cape name that I consider choosing for myself?"

"Yeah, sure…" Taylor says slowly and warily when she sees the mischievous glint in Nikos' green eyes.

"I was thinking of calling myself Master Meow Meow," Heartbreaker breaks out to her and Taylor nearly chokes in her own spit at the ridiculous name.

Taylor notes the merry sparkle in Nikos' eyes and immediately knows that he is simply jesting.

"You don't like Master Meow Meow then? How about the name Lord Puss or King Kittycat?" Heartbreaker suggest, his grin only becoming wide.

"Fuck no!" Taylor burst out. "If you must choose a cape name for yourself, it should be something that most will remember you by! And stop making a jest Vasil! I grew tired of it!"

"Geeze, Swarm. Calm down. I've already pick a cape name...I've decided to call myself Chat Noir. It's French for Black Cat. How about that?" Nikos' asks her.

"If you are Chat Noir, then I'm a Ladybug," comes Taylor's retort. "Pick something else Vasil. Choose something from Legends or Mythology. Not something lame like Chat Noir."

"I didn't realize that you are this bossy Swarm, but alright. I will heed your advice... Anyway, in the last two days, I've also considered naming myself from Gods or Goddesses of the Egyptian Pantheons, like Sekhmet for example who is depicted with a feline appearance. Her name can be translated as 'Mistress of Dread', 'Lady of Slaughter' and 'She Who Mauls'. I can use either of those titles, but using the masculine terms instead. What do you think?"

Taylor considers it for a moment before she says to him, "You can choose either 'Master of Dread' or 'Lord of Slaughter'. It doesn't matter what you choose in the end. I think both names are quite fearsome."

Well, it's better than naming yourself as Catbreaker. Taylor muses.

"I think I will name myself as Lord of Slaughter," Nikos' tells her. "That sounds more frightening than the other one."

Lord of Slaughter...Hmn...It sounds more like you are the leader of the Slaughterhouse 9, Vasil. Taylor thinks.

"Better," is her only remark.

"Well, since I've already signed in my cape name. I will have to go back and change it before they make it official." Nikos' informs her.

"Alright," comes Taylor's reply.

"Also, even though I've joined the Wards today and is now a cape like you. I am still going to devote my time worshiping the path you walk on," Nikos' states while he winks at her. "So you won't see the last of me, Swarm. I promise you that."

At Heartbreaker's words, Taylor inwardly groans in complete dismay and understands that she will only see more of Nikos Vasil now that he's working in the same organization as her.

Well, fuck! Heartbreaker is going to stick to me like a cat on a scratch post where he will simply tear my composure apart with his constant presence. Just kill me now! She mentally moans.

"Remember Swarm. I'm still your number one Fanboy!" Nikos declares in a loud, sing-song voice, which draws the attention of a number of capes within the vicinity.

She hears the sound of people snickering and muffling their laughter at Heartbreaker's declaration and Taylor Hebert has the desire to simply disappear from the spot after Nikos Vasil's embarrassing display.

"Will you shut up and stop embarrassing me Vasil!" She snaps out loud.

However, her words are only rewarded by the sight of Nikos Vasil smirking and winking in her direction.