Watchmen Kink Meme 3. Weeeeeeee.
Rules of the meme:
1. Anonymously post a pairing and prompt you would like to see written. Since this is a kink meme, there is supposted to be a kink involved, but normal well-written prompts should work just as well.
2. Anonymous will respond to your post and write it for you! Art and such is also acceptable/awesome. Multiple people may respond to ( Read more... )
"Bored," Laurie mutters, leg kicking idly, heel connecting with the leg of the chair she's sitting on with a slight thunk. Her mouth twists into a scowl as this gets no response. "Bored," she says again. Thunk. "Bored." Thunk. "Boooored." A slightly louder thunk, competing with the sound of the rain pounding against the windows. "Bo-"
"Laurie!" her mother finally snaps, looking up from the magazine she's perusing. There. Laurie almost smiles. Her mom might be annoyed, but at least she's paying attention, which is a step in the right direction. Sally might be a little self-absorbed, but she's a pretty good mom, and she can be particularly good at coming up with things to do on boring, rainy stuck-inside days like today. Usually she even gets just as caught up in whatever activity they decide on as her daughter does, once Laurie exasperates her into playing.
At the moment, though, she's staring at her, eyebrows high on her forehead, mouth set in a hard line, hand still paused halfway through turning a page, ready to go back to her magazine as soon as Laurie has fully absorbed the message that look sends. Laurie just shrugs and flips her hair back in a gesture years too old for her. "I'm bored," she explains innocently.
Sally sets the magazine down with a sigh. "Yes. I'd gathered."
Laurie looks back at her a little expectantly, pouting a bit. Were her father in the room, he would say she was being manipulative (something he accuses her of quite a bit, but that's all right, because she once used the word in front of Jon, and then had to explain what it meant, and it's not often that she gets to be smarter than Jon. She'd tried it on Adrian too, without as much luck, but Adrian knows just about everything, so it wasn't that disappointing.), and maybe she is, a little bit, but she doesn't mean to be. She just wants to play with her mom.
Sally rolls her eyes, but her expression softens some. "You're nine years old, Laurie," she says. "Can't you come up with some way of entertaining yourself?"
"Nope," Laurie says, shaking her head emphatically.
"Why don't you read a book?" Sally suggests with an encouraging smile. Laurie chews on her lip as she thinks about this, then lets it slip from between her teeth with a soft, wet pop as she looks down at the floor.
"I'll take that as a 'no.'" Her mom's tone is dry, but Laurie can tell she's trying not to smile. "You could play dress-up."
Hmm. That has possibilities. "Dress-up's no fun alone," she says, as if it's just a thought that's occurred to her and she's not trying to get any particular response.
Sally is smiling now, as she flips the magazine closed and stands up. "All right, all right, I'm coming."
Laurie has a big trunk full of dress-up clothes, and Sally perches on the edge of the bed while she digs through them, debating if she'd rather be a princess, or a pirate, or... "Mom? What do you wanna be?"
There's no answer, and when she turns around, lips already forming another questioning, "Mom?" her mother is staring off into space, her expression soft and faraway. "Hey... Mom," she says, brow furrowing.
"Did I ever tell you about the game me and your uncle Hollis used to play?" Sally says, looking down at Laurie, though that faraway look doesn't really change.
"Nope," Laurie says, eagerly taking a seat on the bed beside her mother. She loves when Sally tells her about when she was a kid, with Uncles Hollis and Nelly and Rolf... Her mom was the only girl hanging out with a bunch of boys, just like her, which she likes. She doesn't talk about it much, though, and for some reason her dad never likes it when she does.
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Laurie ponders this. "You mean like Batman?" Sally gives a short, surprised chuckle and a slightly questioning look. Laurie shrugs. "Dan really likes Batman." You can't hang out with a bunch of boys without learning a thing or two about superheroes, and Laurie has to admit she sort of likes the comics herself, even if she doesn't understand the devotion that drives Daniel to the newsstand every week to stock up on the slim books.
"Of course he does," Sally smiles. "Well...yes, sort of like Batman. Wait a moment, I'll be right back." She hurries out of the room, and Laurie sits on the bed, wondering what this is about. When she returns, she's holding a small bundle of yellow fabric.
"Look," she says, holding it up. The gauzy material cascades downward, shaping itself into a sort of dress. "This was my superhero costume. My mother made it for me." Laurie cocks her head and looks at the outfit. It doesn't look like much of a costume. There's not much to it. No armor like Batman, and it wouldn't even cover all over like Spider-Man's suit. "Would you like to try it on?"
Laurie shrugs and takes the costume, which her mother holds out almost reverently. She ducks into the closet to change, at the age where she's starting to care whether her mother watches her do so. It's slightly loose, but not too bad. She comes out and looks in the mirror.
"Well?" says Sally. "What do you think?" Laurie stares at her reflection a little skeptically. She's not too sure about it. It's too girly for a hero. It's one thing to be a princess and wear a big poofy gown, but superheroes shouldn't go around in little yellow dresses. It doesn't seem right.
She doesn't want to upset her mother, though, so she says, "It's nice," tries to make it sound sincere.
"Would you like to play?"
Laurie shrugs. "What do we do?"
"Well...say..." Sally tries to think of some of the games they played when they were younger. She and Hollis had kept up the vigilante stuff well into their teens, and by then it got quite a bit more violent, but when they were Laurie's age... "Say an evil villain has tied me to the train tracks, and you have to save me before the train comes," she says, stretching out on the bed.
"I'll save you!" Laurie cries, her face splitting into a grin as she runs over to the bed. They play like that for awhile, and it's sort of fun, but she can't quite get into it. She just feels so silly in the costume, 'rescuing' her mother who, she's pretty sure, has never needed rescuing from anything. Superheroes might have been fine for her mom and Uncle Hollis, she decides, but she'd rather be a princess. Or a pirate.
Finally she says she thinks she'll read a book after all, and Sally smiles at her. "All right. But you keep the costume, okay? Maybe you and Dan can play some time." Laurie nods, even though she's pretty sure that's not going to happen. She folds the costume carefully, because it's clear that it's important to her mother, and places it in the back of the closet.
Later that night, she overhears her dad complaining. "--give her that thing for? I thought that silly game died out when you finally grew out of it." Her mother's response is muffled, and she can't make it out.
That night in bed, before she falls asleep, Laurie thinks about the costume in her closet, and the name her mother told her she could use if she wanted -- Silk Spectre. It's a silly name and a silly outfit, but the thought of rescuing people is sort of fun, she thinks before drifting off.
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I'm glad you're enjoying it! Your Bodyguard AU is definitely on my list of Favorite Things Ever, so...yeah. :D
(Captcha says 'killits father,' I'm sure it's trying to tell me something, though I don't know what...)
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I love that thought about Larry, and now must work in something about him saying they should go do their homework. XD
Aack, god, sorry about the novel-length comment. CAN YOU TELL THIS FIC HAS EATEN MY BRAIN?
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And I think I just actually made the D: face at that thought. *Pats poor lil Walter*
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This is a great fic so far. Thank you so much for taking it on.
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Glad you like it so far! :D
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