20 Fandoms 16/20: Like Everyone Else
Title: Like Everyone Else
Fandom: Alcatraz
Character: Diego “Doc” Soto
Rating: Gen
Orientation: Het
Word Count: 591
Prompt: Kink Bingo Fill: “Virginity/Celibacy”
Owemeolympics 20 Fics in 20 Fandoms
Diego “Doc” Soto had been big his entire life. The biggest kid in school, mercilessly picked on, shunned, he had only a few friends growing up. Then there were the trust issues after the abduction. He found solace in his books, he could hide there from a world that was cruel to him. He especially liked the escapism of comic books. In comic books, the heroes always won out in the end. They fought for the little guys that couldn’t fight on their own, like Diego. As he hit his teens, like most teenage boys, he was drawn in and titillated by the tight costumes, anatomically impossible bosoms and kick ass female superheroes.
He wasn’t ashamed to still be a virgin at almost forty. (That movie had been an insult.) Doc had chosen his solitary lifestyle, he had things precisely where he wanted them. No one told him where to go or when to go there. He had wriggled out from under his parent’s thumb, defying their expectations of Academic greatness by sabotaging his own standing in those circles. He considered that particular feat to be artfully done, using Gotham City to discredit himself deliberately.
He loved owning his comic book shop, Doc’s Comics and Collectables. It was like a dream come true the day he took the keys and walked in. He was surrounded every day by the worlds that had offered him sanctuary as a lonely child. Glossy colors everywhere brightened his life as he walked through to his office. He could write there in peace, doing whatever project struck his fancy.
One of his pet projects, Alcatraz, had turned into a book. That book had brought him to the attention of the people who would change his life. The woman that would make Doc Soto rethink his stance on women and relationships and a life of celibacy. Detective Rebecca Madsen had walked into his shop looking for help on a case, and had drawn Doc out of his fantasy worlds and into the real one. Before he knew it, he was teaming up with the smart, sassy, tough detective actually doing some of the things he had only read about before.
He never thought a guy like him would be hooked up with a girl like her. Rebecca was like a real life version of one of the superheroines in the comics.
Rebecca paid attention to him. She didn’t treat him differently because he was a big guy. When he was with her, he felt as smart as he knew he was. He felt needed and important and almost normal for the first time in his life.
It was only natural that he had a massive crush on her.
He spent a lot of time at home in his bed thinking of Rebecca, wondering what it might be like if she were in his life as more than his partner in searching for the 63’s. It might be nice, having a girlfriend, if she were like Rebecca. He might get up the courage to ask her on a date to a movie sometime. Working with her was easy, and he wasn’t nervous talking to her, the way he was around most women. It was probably all because of the way she treated him. She looked him in the eye when she talked to him. She touched his arm sometimes when they were talking. She rested her hand on his shoulder when she leaned over to look at a computer monitor. He liked it. He liked her.
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