Jun 20, 2007 00:02
Um, feeling a bit shy here. Been lurking for ages but was finaaly made to write so I thought I'd offer it here. Hope you like. There's three baby fics that go together and one more. Hides.
Here goes, mini ficcies. None of these characters are mine, goddamn it!
A little bit scary.
Batman was in the middle of a battle with Ivy when it happened.
He was in the process of breaking free from some rather grabby vines when two people spoke.
“I think he needs to be a little more friendly, don’t you my pets?” The cooing voice of Ivy.
“Some trouble Bats? Whoa! Better watching her than monitor duty. It’s like free porn!”
Of all people why did it have to be Guy Gardner? And just in time to catch a face full of whatever it was that Poison Ivy’s plant just spat out at him.
Guy just stood there for a second, face lightly dusted with pale yellow pollen, then he did the strangest thing. He grabbed Batman and squeezed him tight.
Batman stood stone still. Guy Gardner was hugging him! He started to struggle, finally dumping Guy on his rump. The pathetically hurt look he received was just too much. He turned to glare at Ivy but she had already disappeared, leaving only the sound of her laughter behind.
Holding the Lantern off with one hand, he tapped his com and called for aid.
“J’onn, send me a lantern….no. Send Hal and John if they’re available.”
When the two finally appeared Batman was once again detangling himself from the hug happy Guy. Shreds on the ground were all that was left of the ties he’d tried using.
Seeing them, Guy turned quickly with what could only be described as a squeal and glomped Hal.
There was a moment of absolute silence, finally broken by John’s laughter.
“What the hell?” Bruce just shrugged at Hal and turned to leave. It wasn’t his problem anymore.
“Batman?!” Hal was having no luck at all detaching Guy. Even less than Batman had. It seemed like Guy was trying even harder now, snuggling as well as cuddling.
“Hnn. Ivy. Hug pollen. Won’t hurt him or anyone else. It’ll run it’s course in a day or two.” He left, smirking slighted at Hal’s angry retorts and John’s laughter. It wasn’t like Hal couldn’t get the man off if he really tried.
Um, the Boostle is coming I promise!
What they saw.
“I can’t believe my own eyes!”
“I’m laughing so hard I can’t even see anymore!”
“Who would have thought? I mean Superman told me but still…snicker.”
“I know, Booster, I asked Robin and HE said Guy took a face full of hug pollen. Hug pollen!” Beetle paused to get his breathe back. “Why didn’t we know it existed?”
“Yeah…so much wasted time. If we could only get it. Imagine Bats with a nose full of that. We could take pictures and blackmail him for the rest of our lives. We’d never have to work again! Hmm….if we lived of course.” Ted elbowed him in the ribs, snickering.
“Look, he’s actually trying to climb into Hal’s lap!” And in a slightly more serious tone. “I wonder why J’onn isn’t doing his mind control shtick to stop him? Hey, why did it affect him anyway? Isn’t his ring supposed to stop that kinda stuff?”
Hal turned to glare at them. “I can hear you, you know.”
Silence.
“So why did it affect him then?” Booster looked at him innocently.
Hal actually smirked just a little. “Apparently his ring saw that it wouldn’t hurt and thought it’d do him some good.” He flinched a little as Guy hand found a ticklish spot but Guy didn’t push his luck, just sighed against Hal’s ear and squeezed him tighter.
“So….why hasn’t J’onn helped you out?” This time it was Beetle who asked.
“Said he thought I needed a hug. Damn Martian. Bet he’s just laughing,” Hal muttered looking a little pissy now, but had given up on trying to stop Guy. He glared at the other two. “If you don’t leave now…I bet Batman has some samples of this stuff I can pinch. It’s not like I should be the only one suffering here.”
Still giggling, the two stood to leave… but not without parting comments.
“No need to get pissy at us Hal, it’s not our fault. This time.” Booster.
“Funny that he’s only hugging Hal now, isn’t it. Thought John said it was supposed to be generic.”
They fled downed the corridor, green blades following them. Slowing down, Booster slung an arm over Beetle’s shoulders and leaned close to his ear to murmur softly. “If I didn’t know better I’d say Hal’s not that upset about it.”
Ted grinned, “Maybe if Guy actually gets some, he’ll be nicer.”
Repercussions
It was a couple of days later when Booster and Beetle came storming up to Hal.
“What the hell where you thinking, Hal?” Beetle snarled.
“Yeah!” Booster added. Looking mightily pissed off. “What the hell!”
Hal looked back at them. It’d had been relatively quiet today, since the hug pollen had worn off Guy after a couple of hours. Batman must have been exaggerating. But while annoying, kind of anyway, it had been nice to see a softer side of the man. Hopefully once he stopped sulking Hal might see more of that side of him.
He shook out of his thoughts and turned back to the two men standing in front of him.
He smiled, it bordered on a smirk. “Yes?”
“What’s the funny idea dosing us with sex pollen Hal?!”
He stared at Booster, then at Beetle, then back at Booster.
“What?!”
“You heard him, Hal. We know it was you.” Beetle glared at him, fists shaking at his sides.
Hal blinked a couple of times and took a deep breath. And started laughing.
“I only hit you with hug pollen!” He kept sniggering. He had to go tell Guy about this, he’d laugh himself to death. Though why he thought of Guy first, oh well he’d figure it out later. Still sniggering, Hal walked off.
Booster stood still, staring at the ground. He glanced at Beetle who stared straight ahead blinking slowly, his lips moving.
“How about we forget this ever happened Booster?”
“Yeah, probably a good idea Ted. Um….Pizza?”
Ted looked at him strangely for a minute.
“Sure Booster, your place or mine?”
This ones separate from the others
Bucking Bug
It was about two in the morning. Beetle was very drunk and Booster was more than a little pissed. They sat in the Warriors bar trading tales of battles, drunken and sober, women and funny events. Eventually the talk dwindled. Ted was looking rather sleepy but Booster didn’t want the night to end yet.
“So what fun other than women and booze do you people do in bars?”
“Oh I don’t know Booster. Darts?”
That didn’t go so well. One bar fight and a bit of bandaging later.
“So…that didn’t go so well. Anything else, Ted?”
“Hmm. Pool?”
That worked alright until they lost a ball down some buxom blonde’s cleavage. And so began bar fight number two.
“Got any more Ted?”
“I think I’m done for tonight, Booster. ‘M tired.”
“Na, you’ll be right.” It wasn’t that Booster didn’t care, it was just that he got so lonely when Ted went away and back to work. He just wanted to spend some time with him, he liked spending time with Beetle.
“Those rocking bull things.” He slurred. “In them cowboy bars. They’se fun Boost. We could try ‘em.”
Booster grinned.
But they looked for an hour and all the country bars were closed or wouldn’t take two very drunk city boys.
Booster sulked.
“’ve got an idea Boost. Take me home.” Booster leered. Ted didn’t notice. “We c’n use th’ bug.”
And that was how, half an hour later, the justice league caught them. Riding a bucking bug through the night sky.
So anyway, I hope it's alright cos I've never writen these guys before. Actually it's been about 6 years since I've written anything so I'm kinda rusty.