At some point in his new life, his daemon had been re-nicknamed 'Stupid'. He'd done it himself—even with the confused questions his friends asked about it, he'd kept the name. Stupid didn't seem to mind though, agreeing with him about how they were stupid. How they should have been smarter about the testing program, about everything. That's why when they were kidnapped to help Paradox, Wade had jumped at the chance.
And when Paradox had been wrong—well, Wade had to actually stop Stupid from jumping the little idiots bird Daemon. Paradox had looked at him with disgust then, realizing that his Daemon wasnt settled. Stupid would never settle, unfortunately. He had before Wade Wilson became Deadpool. Before the cancer diagnosis. Before Vanessa. Stupid had been a dog or something—Wade had honestly forgotten at this point. He'd ran after that, going to find a wolverine to help him. He'd found him. Well, him and his Daemon. It wasn't until they'd been sent to the void, and Wolverine wanted to fight him when the other man finally realized Wade's daemon hadn't settled.
"The fuck is wrong with it?" The fight momentarily paused, even Wolverines Daemon—who he still didn't know the name of—looked confused. He ignores the shame in his chest, seeing Stupid curl up a little. He plays off his uncomfortableness, surprised he was uncomfortable. He was stronger than this—he was known as a weirdo and a freak for not having his Dameons settle.
"He's just unique." Wade says, shrugging a bit. "Always has been. His names Stupid." Wolverine frowns heavily as he stares at Wade, like he was lying. Stupid switches from the wolf he was to a large panther, mimicking Wolverine's Daemon before walking over to them. Wolverine flinches hard, stumbling back as Wade doesn't even move with how far away Stupid gets.
"You smell wrong." Wolverine's Daemon says, it's nose scrunching up, and Stupid shrugs a little, staring at the other Daemon. Of course, before they could actually get to the good part of fighting, they're interrupted twice. Once by Johnny Flame On boy (Wow, really author? Not even going to check his name? Just Johnny Flame on boy? At least I thought he was Captain America), and the other by people who capture them.
Cassandra was the weird sort of evil—the type of evil that told Wade that she would be the main villain, and not Paradox. She turns Johnny and his daemon into nothing but mush, which kind of turns Wade on. Well, at least for a few seconds before they're forced to run away from the big dude from Loki Season 2. The grassy feilds they end up at are better than walking on the dirt and hard ground. Better for Stupid's paws, since the Daemons continuing to copy Wolverine's Daemons form, and better for Wolvies Daemon too.
It's not until the dinner he actually gets a name to the Daemon as he's eating. Winters. It sounded fitting, somehow. Kind of like—
"Wade?" His eyes turn from staring at Wolverine and Winters to looking over at Stupid, whose a little ferret. A naked ferret. He couldn't grow any sort of fur, anymore. That was the one thing Wade hated. Stupid deserved fur. "We should tell him. About this whole thing being not true." Panic flares in his chest, and his eyes look back over at Wolvie, but it seems like he was trying to drink himself stupid.
"No. Not at all. You heard what Paradox was trying to do." Wade whispers back, being as quiet as he could. He ignores the words of hurt that Paradox had spewed at him, already used to it. People always did that now. "Vanessa's important. My friends—"
"Vanessa doesnt want us anymore." Wade slams his fist down on the table, and that's the end of that conversation. He doesn't want to think of that. He knows, okay? He knows Vanessa's probably moved on. Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. Doesn't mean he won't feel so alone. They meet NicePool next, with his little dog daemon that Wade has to physically stop himself from picking up, and get a car. He still does let NicePool's Daemon touch him, keeping his hands far away from her, even when she stares into his eyes. Fuck. Why couldn't he get a girl Daemon?
It's in that fucking car when he lets it slip that he doesn't actually know if the TVA can fix Wolverine's world. And it's in that car that Wolverine forces him to actually think for once. To think about his future, his past, his present. Wade stares blankly at Wolverine, knowing his mind was completely disassociating, but there was nothing he could do about it. It takes him a long while to realize Stupid was growling from his lap, switched into a fox that took up the majority of his lap.
"You don't get to say that shit to Wade!" Wade blinks as Stupid speaks—for the first time in a long time—to another person. Stupid's shaking like a leaf(he was never the most adventurous or brave when they were kids), but his teeth are bared and he's looking at Wolverine like he wants to rip his throat out. Winters is in the back seat, hissing quietly, tail flipping back and fourth. "You fucking—you—" Wade takes over then, hearing Stupid's resolve start to break.
"I'm going to punch you now." He says, serious. And when Wolverine laughs, he does exactly as he says. Wade can't remember much from the fight(mainly because the author only focused on how much the car was moving like me and Wolvie were fucking ;)), mainly dissasociating the entire time. Letting his personality take over. He wakes up when they're somewhere else, when they've been brought to another place, and meet other people and their Daemons. Stupid hides in one of his pouches for a while. Too many people and Daemons. Stupid got embarresed about his lack of fur, and would often hide away whenever they were at work.
He'd lie then and tell people who asked that Stupid had settled into a smaller form. They did stare when he refused to talk about his Daemon, and he felt the urge to beat the shit out of Wolverine again rise up when he mentioned it in speaking distance of the others that night. They were going to kill Cassandra—maybe get out of the void and stop Paradox from destroying his world.
"Where's your Daemon?" Wade slams a hand against Wolverine's mouth, eyes flickering to the others, but neither they nor their Daemons had seemingly heard. He glares at Wolverine, remembering he couldnt really see him glaring.
"Shut up." He snaps quietly. And Wolverine shoves him off and heads outside. They go to Cassandra Nova's(Oh, you finally remembered her last name, I see?)place afterwards, and after a fight(Cassandra not having a Daemon was freakier than him having Stupid), they finally get back to Wade's world. Fighting all of the Deadpool variants sucked, and Nicepool dying wasn't actually planned. How the fuck was he supposed to know the idiot didnt have healing?? Peter manages to distract the Deadpool's after that, and they head inside, remeeting Paradox and Cassandra.
She was going to use the time ripper to take over all universes. To destroy his. To destroy his friends. Fucking Paradox. Wade had actually nearly given up then. He was fucking tired, and stressed. He wanted things to go back to how they were before. But, ofcourse, that wouldn't happen. He had to continue fighting to save his friends. He had to save Vanessa. So they headed down, and Wade battled with himself while staring at Wolverine and Winters, feeling Stupid rub against him.
"We lied to him." Stupid whispers. "We should be the ones to do it."
"Its not fair." Wade whispers back.
"Life isn't fair." Wade flinches a bit then, remembering what they'd told him when they were torturing him. "We need to be the ones to do this. We need to prove ourselves. Vanessa doesnt want us." When Wolverine argues against him, Wade does something stupid. He hits the man over the head with a fire extinguisher, and bolts inside of the room, locking it. Wolverine—Logan yelled at him, but him and Stupid made their way to the poles. Stupid turns into a Monkey, and Wade smashes the blue side, grabbing it and yanking it out. Stupid takes his hand, reaching out for the other pole, but they were too far. It was too much.
He feels tears come to his eyes as Stupid stretches and stretches but can't reach the other teather. No. No no no. He needed to do this. This couldn't be how this ended. He was so close to giving up when a jolt goes through him. Winters is biting onto Stupid, holding his arm in his mouth while Wolverine grabbed the other teather. There's a loud explosion, screaming and—
Wade wakes up a few minutes later, feeling like his head had just exploded. He still had all his limbs though, so nothing had exploded. Wolverine is pushing himself up off the floor with a grumble, and Stupid is again a ferret, curled up on Wade's stomach, Winters staring at both of them. He hears yelling from upstairs, and hears the TVA. Paradox seemed to be telling them some bullshit story.
"C'mon Sunshine tits." He says, slowly standing up, holding Stupid in his hands. "Might as well stop the idiot."
They get shawarma afterwards. Stupid likes chewing on the wrappings, and so Wade eats his shawarma without it's protective layer of aluminum, meaninng alot of it drops on the ground. Stupid chews on the food that drops.
"Whats Stupid's actual name?" Wade's eyes flick over to Logan as he pauses, lowering his food.
"I dunno." Wade lies through his teeth, standing up. His mind is telling him to flee right now, quickly. Stupid had stopped chewing on the aluminum had was now poised to run off. He didn't want to scare Logan again, though, and gently quiets Stupid through his mind. "I should... You probably have other shit to do, right?" Winters can tell his owner had done something wrong, as the Daemon flicks his tail at Logan.
"Wade." He looks over at Logan, uncertain. "Can... I don't really have anywhere to go. Would it be fine if I crashed at your place for a while?" He can't stop the stupid grin from spreading across his face. Al and Logan get along instantly, and while Stupid was right in the end (Vanessa had moved on, was seeing other people), he was... Okay.
He sits on the roof one night alone, his chest aching as the stress from the past month finally hits him, and Wade sobs. He doesn't mean to cry—he was stronger than this—but... Everything was so fucking much. Everything had happened. He could have actually died. Him and Stupid.
"You never told me Stupid's actual name." He jolts in surprise, trying to hide his crying from Logan and Winters, but Logan seemed to realize, sitting down by him. "You okay?"
"Yeah, m' fine." He mumbles, and Logan raises an eyebrow.
"Sure." Winters nudges Stupid with his noise, and the dog daemon chuffs, glancing away. "So... Stupid's name?"
"I don't know. It's been a long time." He lies again, staring off into the darkness of the city. It'd been a month since he'd run these streets and taken any sort of job. He'd have to do that again. Take another assassination job. With Logan staying in their house now, and without any form of ID(He was still trying to get all of that settled for the man), Wade was now the primary breadwinner for three people, and three Daemons. Al's security checks only got them so far, and Wade didnt want to have to count on her for so long. She deserved to have most of that money for herself. Besides, he did not need her kids and grandkids coming around again and yelling at him. They were terrifying. "Stupid's always been Stupid."
"My name's Ryan." Wade turns so fast he almost breaks something, looking over at Stupid as the small dog sat up, looking at Logan in something of curiosity. "But... After this happened to us, my name became Stupid. Because that's what we are."
"Wade..." Logan starts, and Wade looks away from him, hands squeezing on the floor. He wondered if he shoved himself off from this height if he'd actually take a long time to regenerate, or would his bones just break.
"We tried that before, remember? That did nothing." Stupid speaks up, and Wade sighs heavily, looking over at Logan.
"We can't settle. We used to—he used to have a form. A wolf or fox or something." He wasn't lying when he said he really couldn't remember. His memory was bad. He knew what Stupid's real name was, and yet he couldn't... "They took that away from us."
"Whose they..?" Wade snorts at the protective tone in Logan's voice, glancing over at him.
"Dead, so don't try it twinkletoes." Logan huffs, and it's silent for a bit, until a jolt goes through him. He turns again, and Stupid.... And Ryan is laying against Winters fur, curled up in a small meerkat form like he belongs in Winters fur. "Thanks for coming back with me. Thanks for... Helping me."
"You deserved it, bud. You and Ryan." Ryan let's out something that sounds like a growl and a purr, sighing a little. "You deserve to be happy." Huh. Nobody had ever said that to him before. They spend the rest of the night out there, but when Wade wakes up in the morning (When had he fallen asleep..?) he's in bed with Al, Ryan curled up with Al's large german Shepard Daemon.
"He was right last night." He hears Ryan whisper as he gets out of bed, rubbing his face. "We deserve happiness." He can't stop the smile that spreads across his face, and nods.
"We do, Ry."