Mar'i/Terry drabbles
And now, we have Mar'i Grayson/Terry McGinnis drabbles. Except the Terry here is basically Damien Wayne/Ibn al Xu'ffasch with Terry's name. Why? I figured that if Terry was introduced in a "possible future" of the DCU and as Bruce Wayne's son, the Son of the Demon storyline would be excellent background material for him.
Disclaimer: The future DCU depicted here is inspired by Kingdom Come and Batman Beyond. The characters belong to DC Comics.
Feedback: Strongly recommended, thank you.
Pairing: Mar'i Grayson/Terry McGinnis
Rating: PG-ish
From the moment she saw him, she’d felt an uncanny magnetism pulling her to him. However, she could not pinpoint one particular reason she felt drawn to him.
Maybe it was his courage. Maybe it was his drive. Maybe it was his intensity. Maybe it was the fact that he was so broken despite his stoic exterior.
Broken like she was.
But he was hers now, and he’d have to get used to that. Fortunately, she had time to ease him into the idea of a relationship with her . . . and she was sure he’d like her methods.
Terry had inherited many things from his father. He’d inherited his father’s wealth, but more importantly he’d inherited the man’s courage and tenacity. Unfortunately, he’d also inherited Bruce Wayne’s lack of emotional availability.
Admittedly, that wasn’t Bruce’s fault. That was the byproduct of his mother’s training, breeding a new Demon’s Head.
He’d felt like a monster, like something too inhuman to be allowed a smidgen of human happiness . . . until he met Mar’i. She consumed his sleeping thoughts and his waking contemplations. And before he knew it or was ready for it, he was in love with her.
Lian should have been surprised at what was going on. It wasn’t every day that Mar’i “I have no time for boys” Grayson confessed that she was in love with the new Batman.
But she wasn’t surprised. She knew Mar’i all too well. And thanks to the wonders of pop psychology, she knew that girls had a tendency to fall in love with men who resembled their fathers . . . and Mar’i had daddy issues up the yin-yang.
She just hoped Terry treated Mar’i better than her father had. Otherwise, he was going to get a visit from her.
It was insane, purely insane.
How could Mar’i fall in love with Bruce Wayne’s son? The young man was clearly unstable; nobody raised by Talia al Ghul came out fully capable of acceptable social interaction. And even if he wasn’t unstable, he was too much like Bruce, too cold and calculating, too obsessive. He wouldn’t be good for Mar’i.
People like Bruce could love, but they couldn’t say it. It was too much of a surrender of control. That was the one thing Mar’i couldn’t understand about Bruce and that was the thing that would break her relationship with Terry.
He saw the way they looked at each other. He saw the slow burn in Terry’s eyes when they locked upon Mar’i. He saw the faint glow in Mar’i’s eyes when they locked upon Terry.
Honestly, maybe he was getting soft in his old age, but he wished them luck. He was wiser now than he’d been then and he realized that he’d done a lot of things wrong with his life, like pushing away the people who loved him. He simply prayed that Terry wouldn’t repeat that mistake.
Then again, maybe Terry was smarter than him in that respect.
Disclaimer: The future DCU depicted here is inspired by Kingdom Come and Batman Beyond. The characters belong to DC Comics.
Feedback: Strongly recommended, thank you.
Pairing: Mar'i Grayson/Terry McGinnis
Rating: PG-ish
From the moment she saw him, she’d felt an uncanny magnetism pulling her to him. However, she could not pinpoint one particular reason she felt drawn to him.
Maybe it was his courage. Maybe it was his drive. Maybe it was his intensity. Maybe it was the fact that he was so broken despite his stoic exterior.
Broken like she was.
But he was hers now, and he’d have to get used to that. Fortunately, she had time to ease him into the idea of a relationship with her . . . and she was sure he’d like her methods.
Terry had inherited many things from his father. He’d inherited his father’s wealth, but more importantly he’d inherited the man’s courage and tenacity. Unfortunately, he’d also inherited Bruce Wayne’s lack of emotional availability.
Admittedly, that wasn’t Bruce’s fault. That was the byproduct of his mother’s training, breeding a new Demon’s Head.
He’d felt like a monster, like something too inhuman to be allowed a smidgen of human happiness . . . until he met Mar’i. She consumed his sleeping thoughts and his waking contemplations. And before he knew it or was ready for it, he was in love with her.
Lian should have been surprised at what was going on. It wasn’t every day that Mar’i “I have no time for boys” Grayson confessed that she was in love with the new Batman.
But she wasn’t surprised. She knew Mar’i all too well. And thanks to the wonders of pop psychology, she knew that girls had a tendency to fall in love with men who resembled their fathers . . . and Mar’i had daddy issues up the yin-yang.
She just hoped Terry treated Mar’i better than her father had. Otherwise, he was going to get a visit from her.
It was insane, purely insane.
How could Mar’i fall in love with Bruce Wayne’s son? The young man was clearly unstable; nobody raised by Talia al Ghul came out fully capable of acceptable social interaction. And even if he wasn’t unstable, he was too much like Bruce, too cold and calculating, too obsessive. He wouldn’t be good for Mar’i.
People like Bruce could love, but they couldn’t say it. It was too much of a surrender of control. That was the one thing Mar’i couldn’t understand about Bruce and that was the thing that would break her relationship with Terry.
He saw the way they looked at each other. He saw the slow burn in Terry’s eyes when they locked upon Mar’i. He saw the faint glow in Mar’i’s eyes when they locked upon Terry.
Honestly, maybe he was getting soft in his old age, but he wished them luck. He was wiser now than he’d been then and he realized that he’d done a lot of things wrong with his life, like pushing away the people who loved him. He simply prayed that Terry wouldn’t repeat that mistake.
Then again, maybe Terry was smarter than him in that respect.