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... )
In two fifth-grade classrooms, five kids are staring at two clocks. It's five minutes before lunch, and the hands have slowed to a crawl. Daniel attempts to distract himself, doodling in his notebook, but none of his drawings are coming out right. His mind isn't really on his current batch of inventions (and it's certainly not on fractions, though his worksheet is done and dutifully double-checked). He's still thinking about the kidnapping case the end-of-recess bell had interrupted, itching to get out and finish the story.
He glances over at Walter, who is tapping his fingers impatiently on the desk, obviously trying to appear attentive to his schoolwork, but he's stealing glances at the clock so often that his eyes are a blur of motion. Dan can see a few scribbled notes in the margins of his paper and knows that there will be new plot points when they get out to the schoolyard.
Finally the bell rings. Dan and Walter, despite sitting nearly in the back, are the first out of the room, dashing through the halls, slipping through gaps between the other students. They reach their usual lunch table at almost exactly the same time as Jon, Laurie and Adrian. Quickly they bolt down their lunches (Dan automatically handing over half of his sandwich to Walter, who typically has little more than a slice of bologna between two pieces of stale bread, and taking the small apple Walter insists on giving him in return) before racing out to the playground.
They pick up where they left off, with Jon playing the bad guy (as their games get more complex, they find themselves switching off more and more in the middle of things, no one willing to be left out of the superheroing for long, and the vast majority of the victims now are imaginary). Walter twists his arm behind his back, growling, "Where is she?" He feels Jon wince and immediately lets up on the pressure. He knows he plays a bit rougher than the rest of them, but he tries to be careful about it.
Before Jon can answer, a sandy-blond head appears, followed by a kid scrambling up onto the platform they're standing on. Dan recognizes him from class. Stephen. They're not exactly friends, but they talk sometimes. Less so since the time Dan caught him trying to copy off his science test.
"Hey, guys. What're you playing?"
The all glance at each other before Dan finally admits, "Superheroes."
"Cool," Stephen says. "Can I play too?"
"No," Walter says bluntly. He's still got his grip on Jon's arm, doesn't even realize he's twisting harder until Jon lets out a soft "Ow."
Stephen pouts. "Why not?"
"Uhh, we're sort of in the middle of something," Dan says. "Maybe some other time, okay?" He doesn't really want the other boy butting into their game either, but he doesn't want to hurt his feelings.
"Yeah," says Laurie, "we're halfway through a mission. Anyway, you have to make up a hero to be."
"Oh," Stephen says, disappointed. "Well..." He's about to try and make up an identity on the spot, but at Walter's glare, he just says, "Okay," and shimmies back down the wooden ladder he'd just come up.
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As they hurry out to the gate after the final bell, a few kids glance at them, and Dan even thinks he hears a couple of giggles in their direction. Word of their game has obviously spread. He shrugs it off. Maybe it is a little silly to still be playing pretend at their age, but it's fun, and as long as he has his friends he doesn't really care that much what anyone else says.
Walter clearly does, though. He spends the whole walk out to Headquarters ranting about Stephen, first for trying to get in on their game (they're all agreed on this, though no one is nearly as bothered by it as he is), then for spreading word of it around school. Laurie, Jon and Adrian have gotten a bit of teasing about it as well, but they share Dan's indifference, the general consensus being that the five of them have each other, and they're having fun, and that's what counts.
Still, they agree with Walter as he goes on about Stephen and his big mouth and what a pain in the butt he is, and when the rant laps itself and he starts repeating all his points a second time, they nod in all the right places. When they've been in the treehouse nearly an hour and he's still going, though, they begin to look at each other in exasperation, wondering how long before he lets the really fairly minor intrusion go.
Finally he pauses for breath and Adrian jumps in, softly saying, "Hey, let's talk about something else, okay?" Walter shuts up, going a bit pink as if he's only just realized how long he's been talking, and they do talk about other stuff for awhile, but it seems sooner than usual when they all think of reasons they ought to be getting home, and they go their separate ways, the first time in ages the Watchmen have not officially met after school.
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