Would You Marry Me?

[mica-silverwind.livejournal.com]

AND NOW, IT'S TIME FOR KUROI TO BE PRE-EMPTED BY THE



MARRIED SINCE FOREVER MEME

Step 1: Post with your character
Step 2: Reply to some other character as if your own had been married to the above for X amount of time.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit!

Rules:
Age up the kidlets, unless it's funnier if you don't.
Gaymarried is fine. For lulz, if nothing else, people.
No porn, please
Have fun making odd couples
Ship it. Ship it hard.
Tell Kuroi: "neener neener"

Comments

[crusades]

[Uh oh, she's got her stern face on. What's Mr. Major done this time?]

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

[Motoko removes the magnet stuck to her arm and flicks it like a bullet directly into the panel beside Bruce's hand. Predictably, is shatters.

It better not have been you who put rare earth magnets in the bed, or god only knows where the next one is going. Make with the detective work, Mr. Major.]

[crusades]

[He exhales long and wearily. That sets what he's working on back several days.]

Was that necessary?

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

[She gives him a perfectly bland face. You started it.]

I'm not sure. Was it?

[She has another magnet in her hand, this time it was stuck somewhere in her hair, clinging to her scalp. Think carefully about the answer, husband.]

[crusades]

Those have nothing to do with me.

[... And will continue to do so until he can think of a reason for them to be there that won't result in him getting brained by flying metal.]

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

Then how they got into our quarters should be interesting to hear.

[Either one of them got sloppy, the Major's barriers are less impregnable than they ought to be, or a certain Bat ought to start apologizing.

Either way; fascinating.]

[crusades]

[He doesn't say anything, instead giving her his best poker face.

Okay, not his best. He is kind of grinning, after all...]

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

[zing! The second magnet digs a neat furrow in his bicep- she's not going to mortally wound him-- she likes him too much. But there's a line there.]

Care to try again?

[crusades]

[He recoils with the impact, but doesn't look particularly surprised. This is a fairly regular occurance, after all. If committing the occasional act of violence against him was what it took for her to cope with the fact that she was actually incredibly fond of him, well, Bruce can take it.]

I'm sorry. It was done with your best interests in mind.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

How does this translate to my 'best interests'?

[No, really.]

[crusades]

It was feasible that you could be susceptible to magnetic weapons. I wanted to test the theory before somebody had the chance to use one against you.

[That's right, it was out of concern. He is her husband, after all.]

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

So, on the off-chance that magnetic interference might cause me brain-damage you decided to hide rare earth magnets in my pillow.

[Yeah, not buying it. She folds her arms]

There are more subtle ways of declaring divorce.

[crusades]

I affixed them myself, while monitoring your systems. I had to do it during one of your hibernations. You wouldn't have let me otherwise.

[And in sensing more backlash forthcoming:]

I won't do it again.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

...

[While she was in defrag? She trusted you, Wayne. Her voice wipes clean of annoyance, clear back to 'fuck you' robotic politeness.]

See that you don't.

[crusades]

[He's learned to sense the emotional cut-off from her intonation.]

Don't do that.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't I?

[It's the main reason why she nearly didn't come back from shore leave, the first time marriage was brought up in conversation.

She's dead scared.]

[crusades]

[The chasm between them at this moment was palpable. The freezing of her emotional responses and the flat tone that it lent her voice, it was like listening to her dying, like watching everything that was human that he cared for vacate an empty shell to the sound of pearls falling against concrete.

She was dying, standing only feet away and with a betrayed look in in her eye.

He always betrayed them.]

Please.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

[It would be so much easier just to shut them off- every day the struggle to remember why she had to became more difficult. Feelings. Shit, emotions are hard. Maybe that was why she'd tethered herself to him, making Bruce the lifeline.

When he finally failed her, then she would at least have a good reason to abandon even the semblance of flesh.]

...

[He's in pain, and even in her induced state of purely logical thought, that's unacceptable. Her blink is a sign of humanity- the acknowledgment of human instinct rendered redundant; like flipping a switch in her brain, that veneer of humanity returns.]

For the record, I would have agreed to it, if you'd asked.

[crusades]

[His posture relaxing is a haggard, desperate sigh of relief.

Slowly, wordlessly, he broaches the gap between them, cups her head in his hands, and kisses her.

He really thought she wasn't coming back this time.]

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

[Her response is slow, but still present; that she's allowing the kiss at all is a sign of forgiveness. If she weren't completely honest, if she wasn't willing to carry through with the threat, then it wouldn't be a threat.]

You're an idiot.

[But that doesn't make her any less glad when she doesn't have to.]

[crusades]

[And he hasn't even tried earning that forgiveness yet. That must be a sign of progress.]

I know.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

[That's because it's partially her fault. She's the one who trusted you, when clearly you're not up to the responsibility, yet.]

If you do it again, I'll break you.

[crusades]

I already said that I wouldn't.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

That time, I didn't believe you.

[she'd dearly like to get drunk, just now.]

[crusades]

[He's shaken and anxious, and not doing the usual thorough job of concealing it. One of his hands snakes around the back of her neck and he clings to her for dear life.]

Believe it now.