ficlet, for kijikun

[elspethdixon]

Because they're now available to me in a format I actually kind of like, and because anonymous trolls are awful:

Daniel is never going to admit it, but he prefers talking to Laurie - eating dinner with her, walking down the street with her, window shopping and playing the "what would I buy if I hadn't spent all my money on repairing Archie" game, bouncing an idea for modifications to his costume, or his gear off her and seeing what she thought -- to the sex.

He prefers fighting or saving people next to her, too.

Sex is... Only with adrenaline pumping through his veins is his need raw enough, intense enough to overcome the fact that her body, even muscled as it is, is soft where it should be hard, smells of women where it should smell of semen and musk, that even though he likes her, even maybe loves her, she's not what his body really wants.

Women aren't what his body really wants.

But right now, Archie is humming around them and they've only barely escaped the most recent fight with their lives, and Laurie is wearing nothing but her high-heeled black boots, writhing against him while he still has his mask on, and things are good.

And if he thinks of freckles dotting pale skin like ink blots when he kisses her shoulder, hears someone else's voice growling "Leave mask on," when she runs her hands over his cowl and breathes "Leave the goggles on. I want you to see me," sees blood spattered across snow and hears the sound of his own screaming when she climaxes with a choked-off little scream of her own, he's very careful never to tell her.

It feels too much like a betrayal, though he's not certain of whom.

Comments

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I love you more than a little bit for this. (And I so need to write the bunny that's been plaguing me since I saw the movie Thursday night)

hears someone else's voice growling "Leave mask on,"

I so hear Rorschach's voice in this and it broke my heart a little.

[harmonyangel.livejournal.com]

Nice. I have a hard time seeing this ship, but from Dan's point of view I can see it working.

Then again, maybe I just have a thing for "Patrick Wilson characters secretly fantasize about sociopaths while having sex with women," since I wrote a very similar drabble in Phantom of the Opera fandom.

[dana-norram.livejournal.com]

That's really good. The last line is made of awesome. :)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[roachpatrol.livejournal.com]

D: D: D:

Oh my gosh, this is so sad and awesome and sad and hot and sad! And I love it!

[velithya]

YES THANK YOU THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED.

[scoodoo58.livejournal.com]

This makes me sad and really happy at the same time. The entire thing is very poignant, and I enjoy how you made Laurie the perfect best friend ever with Dan being hung up on what he wants and can never have again.

Then again it's really late and I could just be in shock of the awesome.

[coldryuuza.livejournal.com]

*bawls like a baby* you make me sad reading this D:

[kijikun]

Re-reading Watchmen fic and came across this. "Leave mask on" still just breaks my heart.