Fic: 399 (Oracle, PG13, Prompt #15: Infinity)
Title: 399
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: #15, Infinity
Word Count: About a hundred and fifty.
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: DC Comics owns all characters involved. Not that Oracle pays too much attention to things like that.
Summary: There's no such thing as a guaranteed happy ending.
Author Notes: A sequel to 378 and 516; this will make no sense -and have no point- without them. Many thanks to katarik for beta and help.
Make no mistake. This isn't fiction. There's a legendary psychopath and a bright, innocent girl, and there's no metatextual rule here that will prevent anybody from being killed or horribly harmed.
There's no finite set of possible endings, no well-defined group of options for you to choose from.
Why should there be? This is the real world. People die. People murder. Heroes cross lines, and good people vote for other good people, so they can order yet another group of good people to put sophisticated weapon systems in orbit and aim them at the ground.
They know for a well-tested fact those can be used to kill somebody with high precision. They think their guidance systems can't be hacked.
Sometimes you can avoid blood being spilled. Sometimes you can only choose whose.
Sometimes there's no single choice that won't wreck your life.
Why should there be one? This is real life.
.finis.
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: #15, Infinity
Word Count: About a hundred and fifty.
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: DC Comics owns all characters involved. Not that Oracle pays too much attention to things like that.
Summary: There's no such thing as a guaranteed happy ending.
Author Notes: A sequel to 378 and 516; this will make no sense -and have no point- without them. Many thanks to katarik for beta and help.
Make no mistake. This isn't fiction. There's a legendary psychopath and a bright, innocent girl, and there's no metatextual rule here that will prevent anybody from being killed or horribly harmed.
There's no finite set of possible endings, no well-defined group of options for you to choose from.
Why should there be? This is the real world. People die. People murder. Heroes cross lines, and good people vote for other good people, so they can order yet another group of good people to put sophisticated weapon systems in orbit and aim them at the ground.
They know for a well-tested fact those can be used to kill somebody with high precision. They think their guidance systems can't be hacked.
Sometimes you can avoid blood being spilled. Sometimes you can only choose whose.
Sometimes there's no single choice that won't wreck your life.
Why should there be one? This is real life.
.finis.