[Feb 9] [Watchmen] It's a stupid word, anyway.
Title: It's a stupid word, anyway.
Day/Theme: “Cute”, by the way, means “fascinatingly ugly”
Series: Watchmen
Character/Pairing: Walter, with mention of Dan and Laurie
Rating: PG
Comments:An AU, with implied OT3.
Cute. The word never meant anything good.
His mother's 'visitors would say it on their way through her door. "Cute kid," they said it mockingly and his mother would tell them not worry and then he would hear a foil wrapper being torn. He knew they would rather he wasn't there. He knew his mother wished she had been that careful earlier. Then, cute meant 'what the hell is this because it's the last thing I want'.
He had brought his Mom breakfast in bed once. Mother's Day. He had heard it on the radio and so he had spread her bread with peanut butter and carried it to her on a plate. She had taken one look, grunted "Cute." and rolled away from it. Cute meant 'go away' then.
When he was older, old enough to be sent to the store, the clerk would look at him and then at the list his mother had sent him with. "Doing the shopping. Isn't that cute?" the man would ask no one, but his mouth tightened like he had bitten something sour and he would get the things his Mom had asked for with more noise and anger than he needed to. Cute meant 'disgusting' to him. He didn't look at Walter the whole time he bagged the items and he always seemed reluctant to take the money that Walter held out to him. A few times, he seemed like there was more he wanted to say or do, but whatever it was, he never did it.
Some boys at the Home said it too. "Isn't that cute," they said when they caught him drawing in his notebook. He had to fight three of them to get the book back and it still wasn't enough to keep some pages being ripped out. Whatever they had been meant by cute, it wasn't something friendly. He never did make any friends there. T
A few thugs had called his mask cute in the beginning stages of his career, in the same sneering tones he had heard from the boys before. He was a better fighter now and it wasn't long before they were afraid of him and the mask. He hadn't heard the word for years until Laurie ruffled his new haircut and said it. Nerves still raw from letting Dan cut it in the first place, he had glared so viciously that even she had been taken aback.
"I know what that means," he had snarled at her, and they might have argued with hurt feelings on both sides if Dan hadn't stepped in to interpret.
Day/Theme: “Cute”, by the way, means “fascinatingly ugly”
Series: Watchmen
Character/Pairing: Walter, with mention of Dan and Laurie
Rating: PG
Comments:An AU, with implied OT3.
Cute. The word never meant anything good.
His mother's 'visitors would say it on their way through her door. "Cute kid," they said it mockingly and his mother would tell them not worry and then he would hear a foil wrapper being torn. He knew they would rather he wasn't there. He knew his mother wished she had been that careful earlier. Then, cute meant 'what the hell is this because it's the last thing I want'.
He had brought his Mom breakfast in bed once. Mother's Day. He had heard it on the radio and so he had spread her bread with peanut butter and carried it to her on a plate. She had taken one look, grunted "Cute." and rolled away from it. Cute meant 'go away' then.
When he was older, old enough to be sent to the store, the clerk would look at him and then at the list his mother had sent him with. "Doing the shopping. Isn't that cute?" the man would ask no one, but his mouth tightened like he had bitten something sour and he would get the things his Mom had asked for with more noise and anger than he needed to. Cute meant 'disgusting' to him. He didn't look at Walter the whole time he bagged the items and he always seemed reluctant to take the money that Walter held out to him. A few times, he seemed like there was more he wanted to say or do, but whatever it was, he never did it.
Some boys at the Home said it too. "Isn't that cute," they said when they caught him drawing in his notebook. He had to fight three of them to get the book back and it still wasn't enough to keep some pages being ripped out. Whatever they had been meant by cute, it wasn't something friendly. He never did make any friends there. T
A few thugs had called his mask cute in the beginning stages of his career, in the same sneering tones he had heard from the boys before. He was a better fighter now and it wasn't long before they were afraid of him and the mask. He hadn't heard the word for years until Laurie ruffled his new haircut and said it. Nerves still raw from letting Dan cut it in the first place, he had glared so viciously that even she had been taken aback.
"I know what that means," he had snarled at her, and they might have argued with hurt feelings on both sides if Dan hadn't stepped in to interpret.