Pinch Hit - Book Titles
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comment_ficThursday already? My, the week is flying by.
Been doing a little tidying-up around my bookshelves, and so for today's theme, let's borrow some inspiration from some book titles
But first, a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
No spoilers in prompts.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.
Prompts should be formatted as follows:
Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt
Some examples:
-Torchwood, any, The Secret History
-The Dresden Files, Harry Dresden+any, Under my Hat
-Any, any, My Eyes Mint Gold
Been doing a little tidying-up around my bookshelves, and so for today's theme, let's borrow some inspiration from some book titles
But first, a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
No spoilers in prompts.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.
Prompts should be formatted as follows:
Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt
Some examples:
-Torchwood, any, The Secret History
-The Dresden Files, Harry Dresden+any, Under my Hat
-Any, any, My Eyes Mint Gold
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Date: 2014-08-21 08:01 pm (UTC)DCU/Avengers movieverse, talk of death/violence/brainwashing
Date: 2014-09-09 07:16 pm (UTC)(In this 'verse; warnings for Jason and Bucky's canon backstories)
...
Three days after he starts tagging along with Jimmy (who seems to honestly have no larger goal than waking up every morning and wandering around looking at random shit), they get attacked by goons.
Before Jason can take them out, all four of them are down for good and Jimmy is looking at him with wide eyes like he's about to punished or something.
“You know how to get rid of bodies?” Jason asks.
Jimmy shrugs. He usually says about a total of 5 words a day.
“Okay,” Jason says, “well, you’re about to learn.”
…
He doesn’t know Jimmy’s story beyond the obvious, and he doesn’t care. Jimmy’s like a kid, looking around in wonder, like everything’s new and it’s miraculous. Whoever broke him, though, wants him back because the goons keep coming.
Jason doesn’t see the arm until a week in. Oh, shit, he thinks, but he doesn’t react and he knows Jimmy notices that he’s seen it but he acts like he doesn’t care. Maybe he doesn’t know what it means.
(But he has been keeping it hidden.)
Jimmy is that guy who tore up DC awhile back. Even in the ass-end of Nowhere, Europe, Jason saw the news.
Which means Hydra is after them. Hydra, which is bigger than anything he’s got planned in Gotham, and more important than his revenge.
Because he apparently still has morals. Who knew?
…
He asks after they’re bedded down for the night, “Do you know who’s after you?”
Jimmy answers, “Yes.”
Jason licks his lips. “You wanna… you wanna go after them first?”
If Hydra gets their hands on Jimmy again… it’s been five days and he’s realizing he was a goner when he saw Jimmy trying to melt into that dirty bar.
“They won’t give up,” Jimmy says softly. “I was too much of an asset.” He pauses; Jason listens to him breathe, and then Jimmy confesses, “I don’t want to be an asset anymore.”
“Then let’s burn those fuckers down,” Jason says.
Bruce might even approve, not that Jason gives a shit. But Jimmy needs him because at some point, Hydra is going to send too many for even him to beat in a fight. Jimmy’s just been reacting. He needs to go on the offensive, and he needs time to heal, which means he needs someone to watch his back.
“Burn them down?” Jimmy asks in the smallest voice Jason has ever heard.
It makes him want to stab someone in the eye.
“Yeah,” Jason says. “A little bit of research, a little bit of planning – and then we take the fight to them and we tear them down and we set them on fire and we salt the earth, after, and then we do it again and again until the message sticks.”
“And you…” Jimmy’s voice trails off, and he tries again, “You will… help me?”
Jason nods, saying, “Yeah. It’ll be fun.”
“Fun?” Jimmy sounds disbelieving and Jason laughs.
“I was planning some mayhem anyway, Jimmy,” he explains, rolling over to look at Jimmy, mostly just a in the dark. “At least this involves eradicating a Nazi death cult.” A Nazi death cult whose kill list he was probably on, based on what the talking heads said Project Insight was. A little above his paygrade, though.
But this? Those fuckers trying to get Jimmy back so they can turn him into an asset -- that’s personal.
“I know where the bases are,” Jimmy says. “I know where all the bases are.”
In the dark, Jason smiles. He figures Jimmy’s doing the same.
Re: DCU/Avengers movieverse, talk of death/violence/brainwashing
Date: 2014-09-13 04:28 am (UTC)Re: DCU/Avengers movieverse, talk of death/violence/brainwashing
Date: 2014-09-13 05:24 am (UTC)Thanks so much!
Re: DCU/Avengers movieverse, talk of death/violence/brainwashing
Date: 2014-09-14 04:10 pm (UTC)Love that line! This is great.
Re: DCU/Avengers movieverse, talk of death/violence/brainwashing
Date: 2014-09-14 08:43 pm (UTC)Thank you!