InsaneJournal

WHO: Lyle Bennet & Noah Bennet
WHAT: Lyle stops by to check on how his Dad is dealing with Claire being gone.
WHEN: March 15th; Afternoon
WHERE: Noah's apartment
RATING: PG
STATUS: In Progress

Lyle Bennet could have easily been described by the people around him as the guy who didn't care about anything. Having lived the last few years of his life in what felt like a rather sadistically constructed comic book mockery only to be kidnapped to a different planet in a different galaxy in a different dimension of time and space, his tolerance for bullshit had been pushed to the maximum and then filled in right past that. But this was a situation that broke even that tolerance, which heaped onto him more unnecessary bullshit and blended it with a torrent of emotion that he just couldn't completely grasp and deal with. The first few days had been shock and denial, but now, he'd well progressed from that into holding onto the hope that one way or another, his sister would return.

Claire had always been the strong one, and he wasn't quite sure that he'd be able to get on in the world, this world, any world, without her there.

But even as hard a time as Lyle was having dealing with the fallout from Asaph's latest bit of fun, he couldn't help but imagine that his father had it even worse. Noah Bennet had always been the fixer, the man with a solution in any and all circumstances and obstacles that were thrown in his way, and to be completely powerless in the face of something that he'd desire to fix more than anything else in the world, Lyle could only hope that he hadn't completely broken yet in the face of defeat. Having seen his father immediately after it happened, neither of them completely sure what to say in the face of it, the comfort that had been offered had been the simple and supportive presence of another. But now, now, Lyle couldn't help but wonder if that had been enough.

And as he headed back to the apartments from his shift at the video store, he figured that it wouldn't hurt to check and see if his father was still holding himself together or not.