Watchmen Kink Meme 3. Weeeeeeee.

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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

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (2b/75)

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Daniel perks up at this. He's known Hollis pretty much his whole life, him being such good friends with Laurie's mom, but they had really connected when Hollis and some other policemen had come to give a talk in their class. Ever since then Dan's pretty much idolized the guy. Laurie thinks maybe it's because his own dad's not around too much, and something about Hollis just screams dad. It's a little surprising that he never had kids of his own, actually. He treats them all like his kids, though, Dan especially.

"Come on," Dan says, tossing down his comic. "Let's go play."

Finally. "What do you want to play?" she asks, her book joining his on the slightly haphazard stack.

He looks at her like she's lost her mind. "Superheroes, of course. I'll be Batman and you can be --"

"Uh-uh," she cuts him off. "You have to make up your own hero. I'm the Silk Spectre," she says almost proudly. It's still sort of a silly name, but it was her mom's, and she feels like if she's going to be a hero, she ought to carry it on.

"Oh. Um, okay, I'll be...uh..." A dozen names flash through his mind, all of them already existing in his favorite comics. "I'll think of a name later. I'll just be this cool guy that invents stuff and saves people."

Laurie raises an eyebrow. "That sounds a lot like Batman."

"Nuh-uh. It's completely different. Really. And you can be my partner and uh...you're stuck in a burning bulding and I have to save you." He nods decisively, glad to at least have an idea for the game, even if he can't come up with a name that's not taken.

Laurie doesn't have any better ideas, so she scrambles up the sturdiest-looking of the nearby trees. Silk Spectre looks down and cries, "Help me, help me!"

She lets Dan save her from the burning building, then an imaginary mugger, then an evil villain who is slowly lowering her toward a vat of deadly acid (that one is her idea and she's pretty proud of it; certainly it's better than any of Dan's) before she gets tired of this game.

"How come I have to be the one that always gets rescued?" she complains from the tree stump she has been tied to by the latest villain while he warms up his Destructo-Ray.

"Well...um..." Dan tries to think of an answer that's not 'Because you're a girl.' He knows Laurie well enough to know she's not above punching bad guys, or even best friends who aren't careful what they say.

"I'm tired of getting saved," she says, sparing him. She shakes off her imaginary bonds and stands up. "And I can't take Daniel the superhero seriously. You need a real name. Anyway, I should probably get home."

"Oh. Uh, yeah, me too," Dan says, although it's not even starting to get dark yet.

"See you in school tomorrow," Laurie says, smiling to show she's not really upset, and leaves him standing there, already trying to think up some new villains to top hers next time they play.