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... )
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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