Monday, July 18th, 2016

Distractions

Monday, July 18th, 2016 12:19 pm
serai: A kiss between Casey Connor and Zeke Tyler (Elektra)
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I visited a fic request post [livejournal.com profile] lijahlover pimped. I was only moved to answer one request, as the ones there were all on things I have no knowledge of whatsoever. But I used to read a couple of comics when I was a kid, and Elektra joined my pantheon when I read Elektra: Assassin in the 80's. (Yeah, Frank Miller was actually worth reading once upon a time.) So I tried this, my one and only foray into comics fanfic - Matt/Elektra. Enjoy!





Distractions


From the fire escape above, she drops soundlessly onto the ground behind him. His overcoat is drawn up around his ears as he cups his hands around the match, its light illuminating the palm of his hand and his profile as she circles slowly, silently. The sound of the flame touching the cigarette, tobacco catching, is thunder next to her silence, but still -

"Again," he says, and takes a pull of his smoke, then exhales with a note of boredom. "And this time, watch where you place your hand." She looks down at her palm and sees a tiny smear of rust between thumb and forefinger. "You're getting sloppy. Half a second more, and -" The blade is at his throat just as his throat is no longer there, and she's slammed to the pavement, arm twisted behind her back.

One second, two, and the pair of them are suddenly a twisting snake, muscles tight, loose, tight, warring in and out. She kicks in and shoves out, the blade clatters and then she's slamming her fist downward towards his face, stops a centimeter short. In the pause, his eyebrow lifts. "Well? You gonna bash my head in or are we going to work?"

As it turned out, they did neither.

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serai: A kiss between Casey Connor and Zeke Tyler (CaseyZeke)
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For [livejournal.com profile] mews1945, on her birthday. I hope you're having a lovely day, sweetie. Feel better!


NOTE: This is NOT the end of the story. Really. Keep that in mind.

That said, enjoy!





Miracles
by Serai


Outside the penthouse windows, the blizzard still rages. Nine hours it's been, and the weather reports all say it'll be going for another three days at least. From this high up, Lake Shore Drive is invisible, but the orange glow of the streetlamps far below echoes up through the storm, turning it into a gently flickering, flashing blanket of gold that renders Lake Michigan invisible, just a barely sensed expanse of emptiness beyond the chaos. Zeke sits against the headboard of his bed, watching the wild movements of wind and snow, and for the first time in ten years, Expandhe wishes he had a cigarette... )





Chapter 39 of High Contrast
Chapter 40
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