Alarm Call

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Title: Alarm Call
Length: 2000 words
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Booster/Ted
Notes: For a prompt: "Ted is determined to go to work. Booster is determined to keep him in bed."

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So: half of it dates to his football-star days, when he was nicknamed "Booster" Carter. That all went south, leaving him disgraced and working as a security guard at the Space Museum. When he formulated his brilliant plot to nick shit and become a hero in the C20th, he decided to call himself "Gold Star" - hence the costume. But then:

His first act of 20th century heroism as Gold Star, true embodiment of the Eighties spirit that he is, was to rescue Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr (I KNOW) from some baddies. The rescue went as planned, and good ol' Ronnie called him up to thank him before a press conference, asking him to tell everyone the name of the new hero who walked among them. Booster, star-struck, tongue-tied, blinked a few times and managed to say "Boost- uh, Gold-"
-at which point Reagan cut him off with "BOOSTER GOLD, everybody; your new hero!"

He was only 20 years old when he first came back. Bless.

It is actually kind of cool, though, in that Eighties-model Booster kind of doesn't have a secret identity - the idea of secret anything being totally antithetical to such a self-seeking publicist. He's just Booster Gold all the time. But then you get the modern version of the character, who has to appear bumbling to the rest of the superhero community so he can carry out his actually-profoundly-world-altering business undisturbed. It's like, the glory-hound/idiot persona is now the assumed identity, and it's the *other superheroes* who can't be let in on the secret.