Challenge #111: Zombie
Author: Bitterfig
Title: The One With the Bleeding Heart
Fandom: Runaways (Marvel comic)
Pairing: Nico (Sister Grimm)/Karolina (Lucy In the Sky)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 161
Challenge #111: Zombie
Bodies without minds,
I hear you’re the one with the bleeding heart
Blue and bittersweet
You tear my dreams apart.
Born to be Bad
The Runaways
The One With the Bleeding Heart
Back when she still had parents and went to school, Nico couldn’t stand girls like Karolina. Model tall and thin with long blond hair and sky blue eyes, smiling, shopping and spouting whatever spiritual and political jargon was the vogue. Nico called girls like that Hollywood Zombies. They were “bodies without minds”, just like in the old Runaways song. Nico, with her black nail polish and multi-pierced ears, her Catholic upbringing and her Asian heritage, was different.
Or so she thought.
It turned out Karolina was the one who was different. A whole lot different than Nico had ever imagined. Not just an alien, but a lesbian. Maybe even someone Nico could have fallen in love with if she’d been braver, if she’d been able to imagine more.
It was too late now.
Karolina turned out to be so far out she was beyond Hollywood, beyond California, all the way in outer space and Nico was left behind to wonder.
Title: The One With the Bleeding Heart
Fandom: Runaways (Marvel comic)
Pairing: Nico (Sister Grimm)/Karolina (Lucy In the Sky)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 161
Challenge #111: Zombie
Bodies without minds,
I hear you’re the one with the bleeding heart
Blue and bittersweet
You tear my dreams apart.
Born to be Bad
The Runaways
The One With the Bleeding Heart
Back when she still had parents and went to school, Nico couldn’t stand girls like Karolina. Model tall and thin with long blond hair and sky blue eyes, smiling, shopping and spouting whatever spiritual and political jargon was the vogue. Nico called girls like that Hollywood Zombies. They were “bodies without minds”, just like in the old Runaways song. Nico, with her black nail polish and multi-pierced ears, her Catholic upbringing and her Asian heritage, was different.
Or so she thought.
It turned out Karolina was the one who was different. A whole lot different than Nico had ever imagined. Not just an alien, but a lesbian. Maybe even someone Nico could have fallen in love with if she’d been braver, if she’d been able to imagine more.
It was too late now.
Karolina turned out to be so far out she was beyond Hollywood, beyond California, all the way in outer space and Nico was left behind to wonder.