Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
Rae meets Willow and Dixie on a Sunday, just inside Star City, while she is searching for Kalda. She is walking around the various alleys to get to the warehouse where they agreed to meet when she hears it. Two melodious female voices, one giggling between every breath and the other too loud for the quiet, stop her in her tracks. Rae waits.
“Thanks for the heart,” the louder one says, almost shyly, “I really loved it.” The giggly one stops giggling for a second.
“You’re welcome. Daddy said it was a wonderful, thoughtful present and he really thought you’d appreciate it. I’m glad to see he was right.” The other replies, sounding so close to sane for a moment, that Rae second guesses herself.
“It was!” The other gasps, earnest in all the wrong ways. “I just wish I had something equally… perfect to give you. Something you could treasure as well.”
They giggle together for a few more seconds before a wet moan resonates from the alley. Rae tenses.
“Sh,” one of them comforts, “You wouldn’t want to wake anyone, would you, pretty?” Oh. They’re talking to someone else. Rae peeks around the wall and her eyes widen.
There, in the alley, are Giggles (no wonder there was so much laughing!) and Inertia, arched over the body of a woman on the ground. Giggles is holding a knife, slimy with blood from cuts all across the woman’s abdomen and Inertia clutches a pair of scissors, also drenched in blood. There are a few jars on the ground beside her.
Giggles looks up and meets her eyes.
“Hey, Will,” Giggles declares, “Look!” Inertia’s head whips around at the speed of light, and Rae finds herself frozen in the face of glassy baby blues and electric green eyes. Then, confidence gathering in the pit of her stomach and staining her insides black, Rae steps forward, grinning darkly.
“I can show you a better way,” she offers to Inertia at the sight of the red-haired girl’s scissors about to slice off the woman’s lungs, “If you’ll let me.”
Inertia glances at Giggles excitedly, who beams in return.
“That sounds great,” Inertia breaths, reverence staining her sigh, “Really great.”
Giggles nods.
“What’re your names?” Rae asks as she crouches down. “Mine’s Rae, but you can call me Red-for Red Arrow.”
Giggles’ eyes glitter. “Giggles or Dixie is fine.” She says, still smiling.
Inertia shrugs, “I like to be called Will. My real names’ Willow-but that sounds so stupid and old, you know?”
Rae doesn’t, not really (she thinks Willow is a beautiful name), but nods nonetheless. She accepts another pair of scissors from Dixie, and teaches them.
Where is my compassion, again?
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Sportsmaster stop trying to be Batman and all-knowing. I didn't expect Jade to leave Rae behind. They should do something about Sportsmaster and Zoom both. I'm sure Dixie and Kalda would have some ideas.
Not a fan of OT6/7/8 myself, but for some reason I really like the idea of it in this AU. Seriously, evil genderbending makes everything better. As long as the prevalent ones are the solid ones, I don't even care. That's how awesome this is.
I don't think I've said this before, but putting aside the Dixie/Will romance (adorable evil love is the best kind), my favorite thing about this story is the italicized questions, and the thoughts that lead to it. They're so excellently blended in with each part.
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Um, yes. Zoom and Sportsmaster-- they've got to go. But don't worry. They'll get to lie in their own damned beds. Dixie and Kal sure do.
Thank you! :)
And also, thanks so much for mentioning that. The italicized parts-- I agonize over them sometimes. Seriously, bro.
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