crack_van | In The Bleak Midwinter by shalott (R)

Fandom: THE DEAD ZONE
Pairing: Johnny Smith/Walt Bannerman/Christopher Wey
Author on LJ:

astolat
Author Website: Intimations
Why this must be read:

A silver cane-head connects Christopher Wey's bleak future existence with Johnny's relatively idyllic present. When they touch the object, present and future come together--and Johnny can't seem to bring himself to break the connection, trapping both men in shared half-lives. It's only when Walt is a little too observant that a little warmth is found.

Johnny's face changed when he zoned out on one of his visions; this was different. He wasn't seeing a different world, but he kept looking over to the side, like something had stepped into this one. Something he didn't really want to see.

Walt gave him a couple weeks to snap out of it. The third time it happened while Johnny was over for dinner, he still didn't say anything, but he started watching a lot more closely. When it was happening, Johnny's hands would wrap around the top of his cane so tight that the blood would leave his fingers, and his eyes would start tracking something no one else could see. Johnny's face had gotten harder in the last year, lines coming out of nowhere, as if the missing six years were catching up with him all at once.

Sarah still hadn't noticed anything; she was smiling, a little artificially, and collecting the plates. J.J. came back to the table with his latest science paper and Johnny bent over it, but he didn't stop glancing up. By the time J.J. was sent off to bed, Walt could pretty much guess that Johnny was seeing a person, someone moving around the kitchen watching them. Creepy as hell, like being haunted, and he was torn between making Johnny tell him what it was and not really wanting to know.

"I'll give you a ride home," he said. He knew it was a bad idea. He'd always been too curious for his own good.

In The Bleak Midwinter

In The Bleak Midwinter by shalott (R)

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