Three More Drabbles: Harley/Ivy PG, Bruce/Clark
Title: Simple Things
Author: Cold Nostalgia
Disclaimer: Don’t own them
Claim: Harley, Ivy
Prompt: 36. Fall/Autumn
Rating: PG
Word Count: 128
As much as she loathed to admit it, part of Ivy was glad that she’d agreed to go on the surprise walk. The break had been a welcome respite to fruitless hours spent hunched over ineffective chemicals and unsuccessful elixirs.
Harley’s warm fingers felt pleasant against her cool hands in the delicate chill of the September morning sunshine. Her smile was nearly contagious and enthusiasm endearing.
“Ain’t it pretty, Red?”
Ivy cast a wary eye over fallen golden leaves and rustic trees; listened as a thousand weary voices grew more faint with time.
“I suppose,” she allowed.
Harley’s grin was as brilliant as a ray of pure sunshine. Ivy couldn’t help but lean forward and bask in the light.
They marched forward together under a clear blue sky.
Title: The Shifting Seasons
Author: Cold Nostalgia
Disclaimer: DC owns everything.
Claim: Harley/Ivy
Prompt: 28. Fade
Word count: 100
Summary: Then the cycle begins anew.
The bruises fade, her eyes are almost lucid, she leaves and then the cycle begins anew.
Ivy no longer argues, or questions it anymore. Just as a redwood slowly withdraws into itself as summer turns to fall, Harley will always return to her maker and feast upon his madness before coming home.
Ivy’s acceptance doesn’t stop it from hurting any less. The first few silent, empty days always bite the hardest. Those are the days when she feels herself being pulled away, the spectre of Pamela growing faint within her.
It’s during this time that spring seems so far away.
Title: Confetti
Author: Cold Nostalgia
Rating: PG
Word Count:157
Characters/Paring: Clark/Bruce, Clark/Lois
Summary: The wedding is perfect
The wedding is perfect. Lois looks radiantly beautiful and Clark is nothing less than luminous; a bright god amongst dim mortals. A joyful, exuberant energy intensifies as it travels from one guest to the next.
A fairytale ending to a fairytale romance.
It is only when congratulations have been offered, handshakes exchanged, the last photographs have been taken, that Bruce feels he can finally let go of the breath he has been holding.
Finally alone, he travels the length of the small church yard; a dark figure on a picturesque day.
His mind wanders down overcast paths, roads taken and then abandoned in a moment of blackened stubbornness.
Later Diana will corner him with compassionate eyes and kind words intended to heal. Alfred will fuss in an indirect way.
But for now, Bruce will hang on to his regret, nurture his jealously, tend to his hurt.
He can’t stop being who he is anymore than Clark can.
Author: Cold Nostalgia
Disclaimer: Don’t own them
Claim: Harley, Ivy
Prompt: 36. Fall/Autumn
Rating: PG
Word Count: 128
As much as she loathed to admit it, part of Ivy was glad that she’d agreed to go on the surprise walk. The break had been a welcome respite to fruitless hours spent hunched over ineffective chemicals and unsuccessful elixirs.
Harley’s warm fingers felt pleasant against her cool hands in the delicate chill of the September morning sunshine. Her smile was nearly contagious and enthusiasm endearing.
“Ain’t it pretty, Red?”
Ivy cast a wary eye over fallen golden leaves and rustic trees; listened as a thousand weary voices grew more faint with time.
“I suppose,” she allowed.
Harley’s grin was as brilliant as a ray of pure sunshine. Ivy couldn’t help but lean forward and bask in the light.
They marched forward together under a clear blue sky.
Title: The Shifting Seasons
Author: Cold Nostalgia
Disclaimer: DC owns everything.
Claim: Harley/Ivy
Prompt: 28. Fade
Word count: 100
Summary: Then the cycle begins anew.
The bruises fade, her eyes are almost lucid, she leaves and then the cycle begins anew.
Ivy no longer argues, or questions it anymore. Just as a redwood slowly withdraws into itself as summer turns to fall, Harley will always return to her maker and feast upon his madness before coming home.
Ivy’s acceptance doesn’t stop it from hurting any less. The first few silent, empty days always bite the hardest. Those are the days when she feels herself being pulled away, the spectre of Pamela growing faint within her.
It’s during this time that spring seems so far away.
Title: Confetti
Author: Cold Nostalgia
Rating: PG
Word Count:157
Characters/Paring: Clark/Bruce, Clark/Lois
Summary: The wedding is perfect
The wedding is perfect. Lois looks radiantly beautiful and Clark is nothing less than luminous; a bright god amongst dim mortals. A joyful, exuberant energy intensifies as it travels from one guest to the next.
A fairytale ending to a fairytale romance.
It is only when congratulations have been offered, handshakes exchanged, the last photographs have been taken, that Bruce feels he can finally let go of the breath he has been holding.
Finally alone, he travels the length of the small church yard; a dark figure on a picturesque day.
His mind wanders down overcast paths, roads taken and then abandoned in a moment of blackened stubbornness.
Later Diana will corner him with compassionate eyes and kind words intended to heal. Alfred will fuss in an indirect way.
But for now, Bruce will hang on to his regret, nurture his jealously, tend to his hurt.
He can’t stop being who he is anymore than Clark can.