grlnamedlucifer

Fic: Heroes - Her Father's Daughter

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:57:29 GMT

I still have to comment back to some people on my last fic, and yet I've written another one. Yes, I am frightened as well. I'm not used to being this productive when it comes to fic. And just a bit intimidated by how that one went over. >.>

Inspired by a rant over at heroesarg.com about how awful Ando's comic was, of all things. And surely to be jossed by Monday.

Title: Her Father's Daughter
Fandom: Heroes
Rating: PG/K+
Spoilers: S2 finale and implied 2x01 ones. Also, takes issues #47 & #48 (Heroism is Found in the Heart) of the online comic as canon.
Warning: None, unbeta-ed
Characters/Pairing: Kimiko, Kaito, Hiro, Ando [Kimiko/Fumio, Kimiko/Ando]
Disclaimer: All NBC's and none of mine. I make no money from this. Also, please remember that fiction is fictional.
Summary: If Kimiko was the sort who needed the approval of others, Father would have disillusioned her of that long ago.
A/N: An attempt to mesh the reserved (minus the occasional angry outburst) characterization of the show with the ass-kicking Ando-kissing version in the comics. Will likely make more sense if you have read said comic.

-----

Nakamura Kaito would never be called the most demonstrative of fathers, a fact which suits Kimiko perfectly well. It does not mean that they love each other any less, more that her little brother is affectionate enough for the three of them. The fact that Father gives what little attention, if not affection, he has to Hiro does not bother her when she thinks it through rationally. Her brother is Father's heir and therefore deserves more attention. If it causes her to become jealous then it is a fault of her own poorly controlled emotions, not his.

Kimiko comes to this conclusion as a little girl, when an upperclassman girl decides that the quiet rich girl who spends her free time doing homework because she enjoys it makes for an easy target. Kimiko does not even look up when the girl teases her lack of friends to spend time with or when she snatches the book from her hands and tosses it away. She bites her tongue when the girl starts mocking Hiro, whom everyone knows is barely keeping from failing out of his classes.

But when the girl insults Father, for the first time she can remember Kimiko fails to think before she acts. At the end of the day, the girl is sent home with a bruise and Kimiko with a letter from her teacher and a feeling of dread as she waits for Father to come home.

The momentary thrill of Father's attention is quickly ended at the look on his face. Until now, she had thought that that look could only be given to her little brother and she does not understand how Hiro can face it so often, why he does not work harder to avoid it.

It is then she decides that Father's attention is not worth the price of Father's disappointment, and resolves to receive neither ever again.

-----

Despite the warning that the sound of pounding feet running down the hall gives her, Kimiko cannot move her homework fast enough before her little brother launches himself onto her bed, sending her papers flying.

"Father is taking me to New York! Father is taking me to New York!" Hiro shouts, bouncing giddily as he tells her what Father had already informed her of the day before. "Do you think I'll see Spiderman there?"

"Hiro!" Kimiko admonishes, pulling her papers away before his bouncing scatters them more. "Father is bringing you to pay attention. To show you how to run a business. Not for you to pretend that you are in one of your comic books."

Hiro pouts at her, finally stopping his bouncing. "If it is business, then you should go, big sister. You're the one who is good at that."

"Which is why Father is taking you and not me, little brother. To learn." Wanting to get rid of the ridiculous pout on her brother's face, she adds, "Maybe Father will take you to Time Square when he has finished. And you can buy me a souvenir and it will be just like I came with you."

It does the trick, and a few weeks later Hiro returns from New York with a haphazardly wrapped package. He presents it to her as grandly as if it had the sword of Kensei himself in it and not simply an overly large t-shirt with an obnoxious 'I love New York' printed on it. She tells him that she adores it and his smile is brighter than the sun as he begins to tell her all of what he and Father did in America.

When he distractedly asks her why Father would be carrying a baby, she does not have an answer for him, and the lack of such worries her more than Hiro, who continues with his babblings without noticing her distraction. She silently adds it to her mental list of the things she does not know about Father, right below the question of why he would need to discuss in New York a paper company in Texas, or why he owns such a thing to begin with, and hopes that he will one day trust her enough to let her know the answers.

-----

The first time she meets Fukazawa Fumio, it is when he only just avoids running her over with his motorcycle. It is an ominous beginning to what she knows will be a short relationship, but he apologizes like a gentleman and is kind to her and she lets herself be charmed by him.

The girls at school that she calls friends laugh and claim that dating him is her rebelling against Father and she knows herself well enough to acknowledge that it may be true. She tells him nothing, though. Of Fumio, of their relationship, of him teaching her to ride (amongst other things she certainly will never mention to Father). She does not pretend that this means he does not know (for Father knows everything, she has found) but, if he does, he either allows it or is once again too distracted by his disappointment in Hiro to notice.

It does not matter, either way. Fumio is an entertaining distraction, but one she has no time for once she begins to work at Yamagato. A decision Fumio is less than thrilled about, and she finds that he proves to be less kind than she had thought, but she promised him nothing and has given exactly that.

It earns her a reputation for being cold-hearted and a 'time waster,' and her friends mourn her apparent return to status quo. But if Kimiko was the sort who needed the approval of others, Father would have disillusioned her of that long ago.

-----

The first time she meets Masahashi Ando, Kimiko decides she wants nothing at all to do with him.

It is not the obvious crush he has on her that makes this decision, nor the presumptuous way he behaves around her, as if his mere presence should make her fall for him. She is used to such behavior from men and boys, most of whom foolishly see her as a path to get into Father's good graces.

In fact, her decision has little to do with her at all and everything to do with her little brother. Hiro has clearly decided that this boy is his new best friend. But, with experience and eyes unclouded by such things, Kimiko can tell that the boy does not feel the same. Her little brother babbles about his comics and Star Trek and action figures and his 'friend' nods and smiles with the same annoyed, tolerant expression that she has seen time after time on Father's face.

She is not at all surprised when she sees his name on a Yamagato application a few days later. She wishes nothing more than to dismiss it, to protect her little brother from learning what 'friends' mean to a Nakamura. But while she may disagree with much in Father's treatment of Hiro, he is correct in his belief that his children will not succeed in life if they do not learn such things for themselves. So she can do nothing else but to mark the paper with her approval, and then watch and hope that she is wrong.

But if Kimiko has learned anything at all in this life, it is that she is very rarely wrong.

-----

"Do you know how foolish I looked today when I told your supervisor that of course my brother was not on vacation in America for I think I would know such things?"

Kimiko is livid enough to do nothing to hide the anger in her voice when Hiro finally answers his phone. There is nothing in the world that she despises more than being made to look foolish, a fact her little brother knows full well.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She gets the ridiculous image in her head of him bowing to the phone, made worse by the fact that she knows her brother well enough that it is probably what he is doing at the moment. "But it was an emergency!"

"In America?" Kimiko sighs as he starts babbling something about Las Vegas and a comic and the space/time continuum and rubs her temple with her fingers. She loves her little brother dearly, but even she cannot deny the fact that they are as alike as fire and water. Already knowing what the answer will be, she interrupts him. "You of course told Father of this plan, yes?"

"Um... I was hoping that maybe...you could?"

"Hiro!"

"He wouldn't understand it coming from me! You are the one he listens to!"

"Because I listen to him, and not just when he is telling stories!" For the thousandth time, Kimiko questions Father's decision to read Hiro the stories of Kensei. Clearly they have made him decide that taking off to other countries on a comic book's say so is something that adults in the real world do.

"Please, big sister? The fate of the world depends on it!"

Kimiko forces down a smile, resolved not to let her little brother bring her into this flight of fancy. But he is still her little brother. "I cannot promise anything, but-"

"I love you, big sister!" He interrupts and she will deny to the death the laugh that she cannot contain. "Thank you! Thank you!"

"I love you too, little brother. Even if I think you are completely insane."

-----

In the end her promise is useless, for when she goes to tell Father, he already knows. She is not surprised by this and refuses to admit to herself that she is grateful for it. Kimiko knows that business is not faring well and, while she attempts to stop the gossip of Father's inability to control her brother from reaching his ears, she knows that she cannot shield him from all of it and does not wish to be the one responsible for adding more. So she bows and does not question how Father knows where Hiro will be, nor his decision to take her with him when he goes to retrieve him.

Kimiko stays silent, even while knowing Father's rantings will do nothing to dissuade Hiro of this make-believe quest of his. She stamps down the thrill of anger that rushes through her when Father tells him he will be made Executive Vice President, for she has always known and accepted Father's plans. That she should be jealous of them now is irrational, even if she had always expected it to happen when Hiro had finally accepted his responsibility and not when he was clearly not ready.

Instead, she asks Father for a chance to reason with him, which he grants, she assumes, because he knows that Hiro listens to her. She offers her brother a chance to be a hero, a real life one and not one from some fantasy quest, the hero she has accepted that it is not her place to be.

And for a moment, she almost believes that he agrees. That he has finally become the man Father has wanted him to become and she hoped he could be. She is even mildly grateful to his friend's encouragement. (And if his overheard compliment that she is the smart one startles her, she does not show it.) She is not lying when she says that his agreement is good news, even if it puts a finality on her own advancement.

But the things that he suggests stun Kimiko. She knows such things will do nothing to help Yamagato, will in fact ruin all of the careful planning and hard work she and Father have done for years. She tries to politely dissuade him, to suggest to him the ideas that she has been debating and working over for so long that she knows cannot fail.

But when he dares to mock her knowledge, she cannot contain herself. For what must only be the second time in her life, Kimiko speaks without thinking, tells Hiro exactly what she thinks of this foolishness, of what she did not even allow herself to want until this moment. She does not even remember Father is there until he says her name, the expression on his face one that she has never seen.

It is as if he has never seen her before and when Hiro stops her attempt to apologize, it is only then that she has realized what her brother has done. That he has become the man they always thought he could be, if not on the path that Father has chosen, and she thinks she has never loved him more or been prouder of him.

Perhaps they can both be heroes after all.

-----

It is a week since Father returned from America, without Hiro. She wants to ask what happened to her brother, but if Father wished her to know he would have told her by now. Since he has not, she knows that questions will get her nowhere. Some of her employees claim to have seen him and his friend at Yamagato sometime before Father returned, but she dismisses them as rumors. If Hiro had returned, Father would not wander the house like he had lost something. Like he was waiting for something, for someone.

She finds herself in her brother's room, with little remembrance of deciding to go there. It is untouched from when he left for America and Kimiko picks up the comics thrown haphazardly across the floor, returning them to their proper place. She is confused when she finds one with the cover torn off for, before his foray into saving the world, her little brother treated nothing with more care than his comics.

She is sitting on her brother's bed, still staring at the comic, when she finally realizes she is no longer alone in the room. Father has come in at some point and now sits next to her, staring at the wall ahead of him as blankly as she had the comic.

He does not speak and she does the same, but as they sit there in her little brother's room, she finds her hand holding Father's without knowing which moved to do so. And if either notice the other clutching painfully to their own, they both have more than enough practice at not saying anything of it.

-----

It is not unusual for Kimiko to be the last one to leave work for the night, even before Father made her Executive Vice President, but tonight it is even later than usual. After the others left the board meeting, Father had kept her back to discuss an important matter, and by the time she is leaving the building, it is long passed dark and has begun to rain.

She spends a moment silently berating herself for forgetting her umbrella before realizing the rain is no longer soaking her. Letting herself smile, for she knows him well enough now to know he has been standing there waiting for this moment to 'rescue' her, she turns to see Ando holding his umbrella over them both. "My hero," she says, and the hesitant smile, so unlike the brazen one in New York when he had attempted to hug her, turns into one that rivals her brother's in brightness.

She allows him to walk her home and as he does he tells her stories of his adventures with Hiro in America. She does not believe half of them to be true, but finds herself growing charmed where she would have once merely tolerated. She cannot determine where this change in him has come, whether it is from her brother's influence or his new responsibility in working for Father, but suspects it to be both and decides she very much approves.

"Kimiko-chan," Ando starts when they have almost reached her home, suddenly serious. "Your father and I-"

"Are returning to America tomorrow," she finishes for him. "That is what Father wished to speak to me about."

"Yes," he nods. "Your father thinks it would be best to wait for Hiro to return there, where he disappeared, and not here."

She can tell by his face (and if he wished to last long with Father he needed to learn not to show so much) that that is not all he wanted to say. So she waits patiently, until she realizes he is not going to continue. "And?"

"Ah! Well, I was just wondering... You... could come with us?"

"No," she says, not letting his crestfallen expression affect her. "I am not Hiro. I cannot be in two places at once. I must stay where I am most needed. Where I can help to save my family."

Ando nods in understanding and starts to walk again, but she stops him with her hand on his arm. He turns and looks at her curiously. "Promise me, though," she says, and pretends that she cannot hear the desperation hidden in her voice. "Promise me you will bring them back to me."

"I promise."

Kimiko allows herself to smile again, touching his cheek with her hand, his lips with her own, grateful that he has allowed her this momentary lie.

She is smart enough not to believe him.

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:18:54 GMT

So I was making myself a comic!Haitian icon and kinda went a little overboard. So here's 30 icons from the Heroes comic (up to current issue, #53). Finale-based image on a few.

Teaser icons:

If you take: Comment if you want, but please credit. Hotlinking=bad.

Also, anytime I mention Heroes in an IM? A Nissan Rogue commercial starts up on my tele. Swear to God. It's following me, man!

I'm sorry, I just had to

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:33:00 GMT

Title: Stop Calling
Rating: PG
Characters: Claire, Nathan (mentions of ensemble)
Warning: Spoilers for 2x01, unbeta-ed

They go to the hospital with the others even though the EMT guy fixed her dad up already. She doesn't know any of these people, except maybe the cop, and she can't bring herself to care at the moment why they're hurt. She thinks that probably makes her a bitch, but she doesn't care. She wants to run up to people and scream that the only reason they're even alive is because she just watched her uncle and her father explode, but she can't. She can't, so she pretends to watch the two kids while the grown ups do whatever it is they do in a hospital, and she pretends not to notice her dad's whispered conversation with the Indian-looking guy, and she pretends that she can still feel how every bone in her body broke a few hours ago because it's better than feeling nothing.

There's a window in the waiting room, and she keeps looking out it, not really knowing what she expects to see. There's no sign of the explosion that was the family she rejected, no black spot falling from the sky like a body, no Superman flying over the buildings with someone in his arms. There's nothing but stars and sky, but she keeps staring out the window until the sun comes up. It burns her eyes as she stares into it, but she still doesn't care. She'll heal. It's what she does.

~~~

They don't listen to the news during the ride. She asks, once, for her mom to change it. Her mom gives her a funny look, but does it, and they listen for a while until the first mention of the missing Junior Senator from New York comes up and her dad changes it back to a music station.

"How about we ignore the rest of the world for a while," he says. "A nice chance to relax for a change, right Clairebear?"

She's feeling generous so she smiles at him in the rear-view mirror and makes herself believe he's doing it to protect her.

She wishes he wouldn't. Protecting her just seems to end badly for everyone.

~~~

Senators from New York apparently don't rank that high on California news, so the first thing she does when they finally get a computer in their new "home" is go to his election website. It's stupid, she knows, because it's not like there's going to be anything about the bomb or some message only she's going to understand, like it's some movie or something. It's just a copy of Nathan's speech, which is a good one, she guesses, if you ignore the fact that he gave it while letting his brother and daughter go off to explode half the city.

There's nothing that helps her with whatever it is she thought she needed help with, so she clears the history twice and empties the cache like Zach showed her and doesn't question why she's hiding it and pretends that it's not kind of pathetic when she tries again the next day.

She doesn't know what to do when the message changes.

~~~

She doesn't have his number. She realizes this with a rather hysterical laugh that she's his daughter and yet she didn't bother to get his phone number. There's so many things wrong with that but none of it actually helps her with contacting him.

Not that she really knows what she'd say, anyways. 'Thank you for almost getting yourself killed because I couldn't fire a freaking gun?' 'Sorry I couldn't kill your brother so you had to do it yourself?' 'Hey, by the way, did you happen to notice if Peter managed not to die?' 'How the hell did you survive a nuclear bomb since, hey, been there, done that, not fun?' But she needs to call him. She can't explain why, she just needs to like she needed to find Peter, like she needed to get away from her grandmother.

She doesn't know why she calls Peter's apartment, other than it's just as easy finding his number as it was his address. She doesn't know why she isn't surprised when Nathan picks up the phone, either.

"Peter?"

"No. It's... it's just me. Claire." She manages to resist the urge to add 'your daughter,' but just barely. The silence on the other end makes her almost reconsider.

"He's not here. You... I can't do this. Don't call again."

It's a long time after he hangs up that she manages to put down the phone.

~~~

She calls again the next night. And the next. And the next. She remembers hearing something about doing the same thing and expecting different results is, like, the definition of insanity, but what's one more freakish thing to add to the list.

"You can't keep calling me."

He always says it. She always ignores him.

"You can always stop answering, you know."

She never says that. But they both always hear it.

~~~

"He moved us to California."

"Do you really think your father wants you telling that to people, Claire?"

"It's like he did it on purpose," she goes on, as if he didn't speak. "Like he knew and wanted to keep me as far away from New York and my family as possible. I bet if we knew Japanese he'd move us across the ocean too." She doesn't actually mean what she says. But she hates it here and she hates that they need to be here and she hates that she can't really blame him for it, but she does anyway.

"Your family. And here I thought you already had a family."

It's the first time she hangs up first. It's not the last.

~~~

She finds a copy of the book Zach gave her in the bargain book rack in some book store she wanders into one day, bored out of her mind because starting a new school at the end of a semester would apparently be too obvious.

"There's a chapter in Dr. Suresh's book about radiation or whatever. He says that the person causing it would be like the eye of a hurricane, which I guess means he might be in pain like Ted was but not actually get hurt. So even if he didn't heal like me he'd live through it."

"I'm well aware that Peter's alive, Claire. You're not telling me anything I don't already know."

"Then why are you acting like he died? You really think he'd want you to-"

"Stop. Just… stop calling me, Claire."

~~~

"I heard, you know. About you resigning. And, you know, about Heidi. I'm sorry."

"Are you really going to keep doing this?"

"He wouldn't want you to throw your life away like this, Nathan. You know he wouldn't."

"I think I know more about my brother than some girl who knew him for a few weeks, related or not."

"Then you know he's going to be pissed at you when he gets back."

"You need to stop, Claire. This isn't helping either of us."

"Yeah, well. I'll move on when you do."

~~~

"Calling isn't going to magically make him answer, you know."

"And drinking yourself into a coma will?"

"Congratulations, you sound just like your grandmother."

She wants to throw the phone against the wall. She wants to scream at him that, yes, his life sucks, but so does hers, and what the hell is so wrong with wanting to miss him together? But she doesn't, because next time he might not answer and then she'd be alone in missing him and she doesn't think she'd survive that. So instead, she asks what she's wanted to ask since she first heard his voice.

"How are you even alive?"

The silence goes on so long that she starts to think he's hung up or fallen asleep or just plain ignoring her, until she hears a sigh on the other end.

"God, Claire... What the hell says I really am?"

She wishes she had an answer for that.

wtf is with all the Chucks and pies?

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:22:57 GMT

I have nothing of real importance to say about the pilot for Pushing Daisies except OMG I LOVE IT. IT IS THE SHINIEST SHOW ABOUT DEAD PEOPLE EVER AND IT IS AWESOME.

"Bitch, I was in proximity!"

AND NOT ON FOX THANK GOD.

(And I totally want crossover where The Girl Chuck and Sylar are related because omg hi crazy!Sylar-mommy!)

Fic: Robin Hood - Worse Sins

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:11:01 GMT

So, I recently watched all of the BBC's Robin Hood. And despite the blatant and nonsensical anachronisms that make me want to throw things at the tele, the show's amusing and fun in a popcorn kinda way. (The Master and the Sheriff? Totally BFFs.) And Djaq? Djaq is made of awesome. Everyone should totally watch the show, just to see the awesomeness that is Djaq. Or Djaq/Allan. Or Djaq/Allen/Will. Or... *coughs*. Yeah, so anyways. She inspired fic, surprisingly.

Title: Worse Sins
Author: grlnamedlucifer
Fandom: Robin Hood (BBC)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: All of S1
Warnings: Implied slash/het/threesome, general canon warnings
Pairing: Djaq/Allan/Will
Archive: If for some reason you want this, just ask.
Disclaimer: Robin Hood belongs to... well, England mostly, but this version in particular is the BBC's and I make no money from this. Also, please remember that fiction is fictional.
Summary: "They are outlaws, each of them, and to expect less of them is to be proved a fool."
Notes: Somewhere between 1sentence and a drabble set is this fic, which is really a bunch of semi-related mini-fics. Beta'ed, for a change, by immortalgrl who is v. helpful! XD

~*~

These English disgust her. These men who shirk from imaginary diseases, who withhold water out of fear, who call her stupid when it is they who are ignorant, who make foolishly complicated plans to free them when all it would take would be to open the door. She sees nothing worthy of even what little respect she held for those she fought against in the war in these men. But if this Robin is right, her cooperation will save more of her people from her fate, and even this indignity can be borne a little longer to spare them that.

It does not, however, stop her from spitting at this loud and unpleasant man’s feet.

There is, after all, only so much insult Djaq will take in one day.

~*~

Djaq invites herself to stay for she does not believe her pride would have let her if they had asked, and there is nowhere else for her now. Once her fellow former slaves found out she was not a man, all camaraderie gained from shared misery would be gone. She would have been cast out, or worse, and alone in this land that is not her home.

She will not let herself wonder what she would have done had they said no.

~*~

Words of her brother spill from her mouth unbidden, but she does not regret them. She will not have Allan think he is alone with the brother-sized hole in his heart that she knows will never go away. More than that, she has a fear that once he remembers his earlier words of what his brother deserved, Allan will do more than regret them.

She refuses to feel guilty for the relief she feels at the distraction the necklace provides.

When it is Allan’s turn at nightmares this night, she is there to hold him through them, and pretends she does not feel Will’s eyes upon them both.

~*~

Robin did not come to rescue her and the part of her that is still (always) Safiya wants to cry. Wants to, but does not, because even when she was Safiya, Safiya was never that weak. Wants to, but does not, because Djaq whispers in her head and calls her fool for trusting these English.

Wants to, but does not, because Robin did not come, but she does not need him in order to rescue herself.

~*~

The Prince offers her transport back to the Holy Lands - payment, he claims, for her part in rescuing him from the Sheriff, from his would-be assassins, from Robin. A way home that Djaq almost would accept did it not come with the price of a broken family, a ghost that bears the name she now claims, and a war that neither side seems to wish to continue. So she declines and bows and ignores Robin’s grumblings.

Later, she wonders whether she will live long enough to regret her choice.

~*~

There is no abundance of privacy in the forest, yet not once do the men interrupt her prayers, a fact she is surprised yet grateful for. She is more surprised still when she catches the source of that privacy leaning against a nearby tree one day. Little John, as quick as the others to call her science witchcraft, her medicine the devil, shrugs when asked and says "Wouldn't want those lads interrupting a chat with mine, now, would I?" and Djaq smiles.

When she prays again, she begs Allah’s forgiveness for thinking ignorant opinions a crime only the English commit.

~*~

They dare her everything from renouncing her god to wearing a dress and she responds the same way each time, so when Allan dares her to kiss Will one night when they have all had too much wine, she responds like always and is little surprised when Allan follows through. She will claim it only good manners to therefore hold up her end of the bargain and kiss him as well.

She has no similar excuse for what happens after that.

~*~

A stick in Little John's hands is death or kindling and an axe in Will's a tool or weapon and she does not understand what should make this black powder so different. Closing one's eyes does not change the fact that the sun exists and burning a book does not destroy the fact that the knowledge within it exists, no matter how they wish to pretend it differently.

When weighed against that knowledge, one man’s wish makes little difference to Djaq.

~*~

Marian's blood does not come off Djaq’s hands, no matter how much she scrubs at them. She has failed Robin and now it would seem that Robin asks them to kill. So she takes up her sword and runs to meet her enemy, for she has failed Robin once today and she refuses to do so a second time.

What difference does more blood on her hands make?

~*~

She finds them together, apart from the others, as she assumed they would be. That they had planned to take their share and run is not far off in the minds of the others and, though none has said, the trust must be re-earned.

Djaq has no such misgivings and little surprise at their actions. Allan is more like his brother than he cares to admit and Will more eager to follow his lead than she thinks even he knows. She begrudges them nothing, can hardly begin to when the sack she carries is heavy with a stolen ledger.

They are outlaws, each of them, and to expect less of them is to be proved a fool.

~*~

Djaq did not expect the Lady Marian to be so brave, nor did she expect to like her as she finds herself doing. Her shorn hair a punishment where Djaq's was freedom, her fighting in the night a game she could play at while it was their lives. But Djaq herself saw what cost that game could bring, saw how the Lady Marian grit her teeth and bore Djaq’s untrained hands digging beneath her skin, saw her fight her way back from the death Djaq could not rescue her from.

None of them are surprised when Marian joins them in the forest, her actions at her would-be wedding too public for even Gisborne's word to grant her leniency were he still willing to give it.

So when the Lady Marian stands before them, waiting on their approval and not Robin’s goodwill, Djaq is the first to offer her welcome.

~*~

She does not know how the Sheriff knows or whether he even does, but when he presses a knife against her throat and slips the noose around Will and Allan's necks and laughingly asks her to choose, she closes her eyes and prays to Allah.

When Robin's arrow fires and frees them both, Djaq takes it as a sign.

~*~

The Lady Marian asks her one day to guard for her while she bathes, and Djaq smirks at her reason for it. "There are only so many things I can tolerate and having these men continue to… accidentally spy on me while I attempt to bathe is certainly not one of them." It does explain why Will's face had been so red last night, though Djaq doubts the grin on Allan's had anything accidental to do with it. "And who is to say that I do not wish to... accidentally spy as well?" Djaq asks because she is Djaq and she can and she laughs as Marian turns and walks off in a huff.

Her question of whether anyone could blush brighter than Will has certainly been more than answered.

~*~

Djaq sleeps with her head on Allan's shoulder and Will's arm across her waist and the Sheriff’s voice in her ear with mocking words of long, cold nights. But she will not be shamed by words nor let the Sheriff rule her life when she is one of Robin's Men.

And she has far worse sins than where she sleeps.

CoC icons [40]

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:37:30 GMT

I haven't made icons (well, more than, like, one random one for me here and there) in forever. But I saw this link (image heavy) on witchqueen's newbie guide post and (...somehow, I dunno, random link clicking) this icon post (again, image heavy) and got inspired. I'm not saying they're great or anything, but I like 'em. There maybe a part 2 to this, but when I promise things like that I usually end up not doing it, so I won't. :D

- Bend it Like Beckham [3]
- Casasnova (BBC) [1]
- Doctor Who [12]
- Ella Enchanted [1]
- Hairspray (Movie) [3]
- Heroes [3]
- Kinky Boots [1]
- PGSM [3]
- Psych [2]
- Seramyu [6]
- Static Shock [2]
- Who Wants to Be a Superhero [3]

Teaser icons:

Bend it Like Beckham [1-3]
Jesminder Kaur Bhamra (Parminder Nagra)

Casasnova (BBC) [4]
Bellino (Nina Sosanya)

Doctor Who [5-16]
Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) / Tish Jones (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) / Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) / Zachary Cross Flane - The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit (Shaun Parkes) / Danny Bartock - The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit (Ronny Jhutti)

Ella Enchanted [17]
Areida (Parminder Nagra)

Hairspray (Movie) [18-20]
Seaweed J. Stubbs (Elijah Kelley) / Little Inez (Taylor Parks)

Heroes [21-23]
Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka)

Kinky Boots [24]
Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor)

PGSM [25-27]
Rei Hino/Sailor Mars (Kitagawa Keiko)

Psych [28-29]
Burton Guster (Dulé Hill)

Seramyu [30-35]
Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus (Nao Takagi) / Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune (Yuhka Asami)

Static Shock [36-37]
Virgil Hawkins/Static

Who Wants to Be a Superhero [38-40]
Aja De Coudreaux/Basura

Comments welcome but not neccessary. Credit please, though. Textless icons are not bases. NO hotlinking.

{Filter: Public / Crossposted: LJ, IJ, GJ, JF}

Testing one, two three

girlnamedlucifer@gmail.com — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:21:09 GMT

Okay, testing out multiple journal posting. *crosses fingers*

[EDIT - Success!]