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[doctorv]

Title: In Dreams
Fandom: Justice League
Characters: Booster/Beetle
Prompt: "Work."
Word Count: 3219
Rating: NC-17
Author's Notes: A New World Order fic that came about when phoenixfire_lia and I realized that Ted seemed to be getting the brunt of the hurt/comfort we were writing. So it was decided that to be fair, we needed to hurt Booster. ...I came up with this

Comments

[fleur_de_liz]

Mmm, delicious angsts. :D

Really, though, it's Ted's fault for being so cute when he's in pain. It's probably why he ended up in a coma nine times out of ten.

[timemonkey]

You do angst so well.

Although why you keep injecting it into your happy universes are a bit confusing, but still it's done very well.

[fleur_de_liz]

Because if it was all sunshine and cupcakes, the New World Order would get boring.

Besides, it doesn't have Batman to monopolize the angst, so now it's being equally distributed.

[runenklinge]

but it should have Batman. A happy one.

look, Gotham´s ex-most eligble bachelor Brucie Wayne decides to settle down with his wife Selena, his baby daughter Helena and his two sons, Richard and Tim.
And the godfather Alfred shows up every second day because he lives just in the next town.

...at least let him have a weekend house that he uses every second week to relax.

[fleur_de_liz]

Nah, we don't need a Batman. New World Order puts all the second-stringers and formerly dead characters in charge.

Most of the Batclan in still in Regular DC Canon. Gotham City is now run by Babs, Stephanie Brown (who has been adopted into the Blue Beetle Corps), Cass Cain, and Misfit. There'll probably be some more older, more experienced heroes in Gotham, but we haven't decided who yet.

[runenklinge]

that was good.
but very, very angsty.

yet good.
we need more of that.

and Ted is an endless source of hurt:
his weight, his geekness, his family (mum dies of heart attack), many friends dead, not much respect, comas (I don´t know how many...2?3?), silly gadgets, no one really knowing his awesomeness, secretly in love with his best friend, the short-genes, the heart condition...

poor, poor teddie. That´s why we all love when Booster hugs his teddy bear.

[kirke_novak]

That was... wow, so good. You got me fooled, I really thought that it's a story how Booster came to the XXth century, I felt so sorry for him and then, when I realized it was just an illusion...
You've created such a wonderful feeling of misery, which made a happy ending even better :D

[freddie_mac]

oh, I liked this. you've captured Michael's feelings of alienation and worthlessness so very well. The way it started out, I almost thought it was during 52, but I guess he's been a few periods like this in his life.

[timemonkey]

Poor Booster. He needs all the love we can throw at him.