Mmm. Judas Contract.
Title: And gave Death a job
Summary: Tara loves her work.
Author's Notes: Some time back, I wrote To ply the needful tool. Last week I started wondering what Tara thought about their alliance.
For deconcentrate, who cheered me on.
She wants it done. Tired of waiting, tired of lying, tired of pretending to be nice little Terra, who's a sweet girl really and just misunderstood, and she --
She wants to tear Raven's cloak off and choke the witch with it, stomp on Garfield's bones and see if he bleeds green, and laugh in all their good little hero faces when they finally realize who she is and that she's *won*.
And she puts all of that in the earth, just like Slade's been teaching her, puts it in the good stone that always does whatever she tells it to, and *flings* it, and laughs when Slade curses and falls on his ass -- she'd heard that bone break from here, and there's blood on his side that she wants to lick off his armor.
And because he's Slade, and he knows her, he knows she did it on purpose and she has to work to dodge that attack -- smells burnt hair and snarls that he'd come so close. She's *better* than he is, she'd just gotten careless. The earth rumbles and shakes under them and Tara smiles, pushes with her hands and her mind, and sends Slade flying back even as she gasps at the pain of a bullet in her thigh.
He'd hurt her. He'd *hurt* her, and that isn't *allowed* -- screams and the rocks scream with her and the world breaks open, and she feels Slade bleeding on the stone, and if she kills him where is she going to get a decent lay?
She lets the earth go and laughs and pants and feels like the strongest thing in the world, because Deathstroke is afraid of her and in two weeks she'll kill the Titans, she'll beat them all, she'll make Batman and Wonder Woman and the Flash and all of them cry, and maybe after she's done with the kids she'll go after them. Parents and their children should stay together.
But right now... what she'll do right now is look up at Slade standing there and keep laughing right up until she gets up and he takes that stupid mask off and she bites him, sucking the blood out of his lip, and snarl at his hand on her breast and shove him down in the dirt and keep laughing when he snarls back.
She's won, and she'll keep winning, and everybody's going to know it before she's through.
-- Finis
Summary: Tara loves her work.
Author's Notes: Some time back, I wrote To ply the needful tool. Last week I started wondering what Tara thought about their alliance.
For deconcentrate, who cheered me on.
She wants it done. Tired of waiting, tired of lying, tired of pretending to be nice little Terra, who's a sweet girl really and just misunderstood, and she --
She wants to tear Raven's cloak off and choke the witch with it, stomp on Garfield's bones and see if he bleeds green, and laugh in all their good little hero faces when they finally realize who she is and that she's *won*.
And she puts all of that in the earth, just like Slade's been teaching her, puts it in the good stone that always does whatever she tells it to, and *flings* it, and laughs when Slade curses and falls on his ass -- she'd heard that bone break from here, and there's blood on his side that she wants to lick off his armor.
And because he's Slade, and he knows her, he knows she did it on purpose and she has to work to dodge that attack -- smells burnt hair and snarls that he'd come so close. She's *better* than he is, she'd just gotten careless. The earth rumbles and shakes under them and Tara smiles, pushes with her hands and her mind, and sends Slade flying back even as she gasps at the pain of a bullet in her thigh.
He'd hurt her. He'd *hurt* her, and that isn't *allowed* -- screams and the rocks scream with her and the world breaks open, and she feels Slade bleeding on the stone, and if she kills him where is she going to get a decent lay?
She lets the earth go and laughs and pants and feels like the strongest thing in the world, because Deathstroke is afraid of her and in two weeks she'll kill the Titans, she'll beat them all, she'll make Batman and Wonder Woman and the Flash and all of them cry, and maybe after she's done with the kids she'll go after them. Parents and their children should stay together.
But right now... what she'll do right now is look up at Slade standing there and keep laughing right up until she gets up and he takes that stupid mask off and she bites him, sucking the blood out of his lip, and snarl at his hand on her breast and shove him down in the dirt and keep laughing when he snarls back.
She's won, and she'll keep winning, and everybody's going to know it before she's through.
-- Finis