ficlet: Hunting for Witches (Barbara Gordon, Jim Gordon), PG
Title/Description: Hunting for Witches
Claim: Barbara Gordon
Characters/Pairing: Barbara, Jim Gordon
Word Count: 273
Rating: PG
Prompt: #50 writer's choice for dcu_freeforall and #72 Sorrow for 50_darkfics. For comment_fic. The prompt was 'Author's choice, author's choice, when was the last time you took a good look at yourself in the mirror and smiled?'
Author's Notes/Warnings: Un'betad.
She is Barbara Gordon.
Adopted daughter of Commissioner Gordon. One of the greatest minds of the world. Former Batgirl. A victim of The Joker. The best hacker of the world. The Intel behind JLA, JSA, The Outsiders, Teen Titans, and even Batman himself.
At her free time she designs video games.
She has a couple PhDs.
She has an eidetic memory.
She’s also an incomplete quadriplegic.
And she hasn’t smile for a very long time.
“All I’m asking,” her dad says, “Is to tell me when it was the last time you smiled like you mean it? And I don’t mean when you fool around with that Grayson kid or when you chat with Dinah about who’s got the better abs. I mean a real smile, Babs.”
She frowns at him.
“When was the last time you took a good look at yourself in the mirror and smiled?”
She is Barbara Gordon.
Adopted daughter of Commissioner Gordon. One of the greatest minds of the world. Former Batgirl. A victim of The Joker. The best hacker of the world. The Intel behind JLA, JSA, The Outsiders, Teen Titans, and even Batman himself.
She’s also an incomplete quadriplegic.
She has a sore the size of a dollar on her right butt cheek.
She has to go to the toilet at a specific time every day.
She has two days to sleep because her legs hurt her like crazy
She can’t feel her legs for years now.
She has an eidetic memory.
She can’t answer her dad’s question not because she doesn’t want to, but because she can’t remember the last time she smiled like that.
Claim: Barbara Gordon
Characters/Pairing: Barbara, Jim Gordon
Word Count: 273
Rating: PG
Prompt: #50 writer's choice for dcu_freeforall and #72 Sorrow for 50_darkfics. For comment_fic. The prompt was 'Author's choice, author's choice, when was the last time you took a good look at yourself in the mirror and smiled?'
Author's Notes/Warnings: Un'betad.
She is Barbara Gordon.
Adopted daughter of Commissioner Gordon. One of the greatest minds of the world. Former Batgirl. A victim of The Joker. The best hacker of the world. The Intel behind JLA, JSA, The Outsiders, Teen Titans, and even Batman himself.
At her free time she designs video games.
She has a couple PhDs.
She has an eidetic memory.
She’s also an incomplete quadriplegic.
And she hasn’t smile for a very long time.
“All I’m asking,” her dad says, “Is to tell me when it was the last time you smiled like you mean it? And I don’t mean when you fool around with that Grayson kid or when you chat with Dinah about who’s got the better abs. I mean a real smile, Babs.”
She frowns at him.
“When was the last time you took a good look at yourself in the mirror and smiled?”
She is Barbara Gordon.
Adopted daughter of Commissioner Gordon. One of the greatest minds of the world. Former Batgirl. A victim of The Joker. The best hacker of the world. The Intel behind JLA, JSA, The Outsiders, Teen Titans, and even Batman himself.
She’s also an incomplete quadriplegic.
She has a sore the size of a dollar on her right butt cheek.
She has to go to the toilet at a specific time every day.
She has two days to sleep because her legs hurt her like crazy
She can’t feel her legs for years now.
She has an eidetic memory.
She can’t answer her dad’s question not because she doesn’t want to, but because she can’t remember the last time she smiled like that.