Taylor got off at her house, staring at the various attempts by their neighbors to decorate for Christmas. It was a situation that hadn't been helped by militant workers who had managed to sink cargo ships in the main channel, making Brockton Bay completely impassible to deep draft ships. Ever since the shipping into the bay had shrunk to close to a standstill over a decade ago, the men and women who worked the docks had been squeezed more and more. Her dad worked most days until at least six pm, in an increasingly futile attempt to hold the shrinking remnants of the Dockworker's Association together. Plus, he wouldn't be home for hours, which should give her enough time for her weakness in wanting to share her troubles to pass. Riding the bus home, Taylor chewed her nails as she consider her situation, and whether to tell her dad. If she could scrape up a B while sitting in a wet or dirty seat, she would have a C minus, high enough to pass. Well, there was still the Algebra test tomorrow to help raise her grade in that class. As long as the school demanded proof that she couldn't get, there was no way they would intervene in her situation or transfer her ahead of the the two hundred people on the waiting list to Arcadia High. Taylor racked her brain for a solution, but couldn't see one. She wouldn't finish the fall with a passing grade, and would need all spring to bring it back up. Now Taylor desperately blinked back tears as she realized she would be getting another zero, Mr Fleming being notoriously lacking in understanding for late work. It would, as Sophia had gloatingly told her, show that they had been right about her the entire time. Ever since school had begun in the fall of her sophomore year, Emma, Sophia, and Madison had been determined to make Taylor fail and force her to repeat an entire year. But this latest method was coming closer and closer. Their regular bullying hadn't worked, even the theft of her mother's flute hadn't broken her. It was all part of the terrible trio's latest and thus far, most effective way of breaking one Taylor Hebert. Now it was just so much garbage, no teacher being willing to accept work that looked like it had been painted with several different kinds of juice and cola. Taylor stared at the stained mess that used to be her chemistry homework. The Beginning of the End or How I Came To Love Iron Tech I merely borrow them for fun.Ĭhapter Fifteen-Journeying Through AbaddonĬhapter Sixteen-Travels Through the CountrysideĬhapter Twenty-four-Pace the Hollow RoomsĬhapter Twenty-five-Celebrations & BargainsĬhapter Twenty-six-Miles To Go Before I SleepĬhapter Twenty-seven-Between the Hammer and the AnvilĬhapter Twenty-eight-Lions, and Tigers, and Congress, Oh My!Ĭhapter Thirty-six: As You Stare Into The Abyss First, she'll need to save her own sanity.ĭisclaimer: Marvel owns Iron Man and Wildbow owns Worm.
Now Taylor has the opportunity to use that knowledge to save her world. One who accomplished amazing things in his life.
Here, instead of triggering, a cosmic entity gifts her with the memories of a man as talented as he was tormented. Summary: Taylor Hebert always triggered because of the bullying of classmates and a former friend. I decided to go ahead and post this here, as a few folks have asked.