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FIC: Unseen [Found!verse; Kara Zor-El, Jason Todd]
Title: Unseen
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG-13 (this chapter)
Spoilers: for this whole series - Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (1985), Christmas with the Superheroes #2 (1989), "Red Hood: The Lost Days" (2010)
Warnings: strong language
Prompt: "Haunt Me" for Miri
Word Count: 690
Summary: She was not expecting this.
Word of the Day: eidolon, noun:
1. A phantom; apparition.
2. An ideal.
Lost Days, Found Friends: Unseen
Kara is stubborn. No one sees her, no one acknowledges her presence, but it doesn't have to be that way. Every so often, she wills herself to visibility (becoming corporeal takes far more effort, sometimes too much) -- somehow, the occasional smile and friendly nod is enough of a balm for her. She feels a little silly and selfish doing it, but it keeps her sane.
She is worried about that, now. Kara doesn't see a lot of ghosts like herself, but she's got no way to move on and being stuck like this is wearing on her. She's no angel, literally or figuratively, and since she has no idea how she got this way, she's pretty sure that she's not supposed to be here.
The whole world moved on without her. She sees pieces of her old world -- Earth-One -- in this new version of Earth. Just enough to recognize. Just enough to hurt.
She finds herself following that which is unfamiliar, to keep the pain at bay.
****
Jason is pretty sure that he's being followed. He doesn't know her, or at least he can't remember seeing her before recently. But now she's everywhere.
He keeps catching glimpses of her, no matter where he ends up during his years abroad (and doesn't that make him sound like the spoiled rich kid he never was?). His eyes always seem to catch the bounce of her bright blonde curls as she moves through a crowd, and he's been pinned by the startling intensity of her own blue eyes (strangely familiar somehow) more than once. It's getting to the point that her face in profile is distinct and recognizable to him.
No one who knows him knows that he is back. There's no reason for anyone to be following him.
And yet...
She's always watching him, it seems, and she looks wistful more often than not. Jason's got no idea why she's there, and he's starting to get paranoid about it.
****
The final straw, though, is when he looks up after killing his latest teacher -- the one who planned to murder her husband and children -- and the blonde woman is standing no more than five feet from him, expression cold and hard as she stares down at his kill.
"What the fuck do you want from me?" Jason demands.
She startles at that, and turns wide blue eyes on him. "You can see me?!"
"You're right fucking there," Jason gestures at her, a wide and angry sweep of his arm, "of course I can!"
****
'You're right fucking there,' he said. Kara Zor-El, the only survivor of a vanished universe who still knows what she survived, realizes with those words that she is -- finally, truly -- not alone anymore.
"You can see me!" she repeats exultantly, and flies toward him. Jason goes on guard immediately, but it's useless (and, since she forgets to make herself corporeal, ultimately unnecessary). Kara's hands pass through his arms when she goes to take hold of his shoulders, and Jason jerks backward violently.
"What are you?"
"Oh... shoot." Kara mutters, realizing her mistake. A moment later, she smiles brightly at Jason. "I'm... a ghost?"
"Suddenly I can see ghosts." Jason says, in the flattest voice ever.
"Maybe it's because you were dead," Kara suggests. That's why she's been (trying) to look out for him. She found out he was dead on one of her few visits to Barbara -- one of the hardest things was watching her dear friend go on with life and not even miss her, though not as hard as when Kara had come back to find Babs paralyzed from an injury that Kara could have prevented, had she only still been alive. Babs cared about this Jason Todd, and he was a curiosity, having come back to life.
"You know ab-- of course you do." Jason heaves a sigh. "You know, if you're my guardian angel, I really ought to punch you, on principle."
Kara has to smirk at that. "Just try it, buddy boy. Just try it."
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG-13 (this chapter)
Spoilers: for this whole series - Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (1985), Christmas with the Superheroes #2 (1989), "Red Hood: The Lost Days" (2010)
Warnings: strong language
Prompt: "Haunt Me" for Miri
Word Count: 690
Summary: She was not expecting this.
Word of the Day: eidolon, noun:
1. A phantom; apparition.
2. An ideal.
Lost Days, Found Friends: Unseen
Kara is stubborn. No one sees her, no one acknowledges her presence, but it doesn't have to be that way. Every so often, she wills herself to visibility (becoming corporeal takes far more effort, sometimes too much) -- somehow, the occasional smile and friendly nod is enough of a balm for her. She feels a little silly and selfish doing it, but it keeps her sane.
She is worried about that, now. Kara doesn't see a lot of ghosts like herself, but she's got no way to move on and being stuck like this is wearing on her. She's no angel, literally or figuratively, and since she has no idea how she got this way, she's pretty sure that she's not supposed to be here.
The whole world moved on without her. She sees pieces of her old world -- Earth-One -- in this new version of Earth. Just enough to recognize. Just enough to hurt.
She finds herself following that which is unfamiliar, to keep the pain at bay.
****
Jason is pretty sure that he's being followed. He doesn't know her, or at least he can't remember seeing her before recently. But now she's everywhere.
He keeps catching glimpses of her, no matter where he ends up during his years abroad (and doesn't that make him sound like the spoiled rich kid he never was?). His eyes always seem to catch the bounce of her bright blonde curls as she moves through a crowd, and he's been pinned by the startling intensity of her own blue eyes (strangely familiar somehow) more than once. It's getting to the point that her face in profile is distinct and recognizable to him.
No one who knows him knows that he is back. There's no reason for anyone to be following him.
And yet...
She's always watching him, it seems, and she looks wistful more often than not. Jason's got no idea why she's there, and he's starting to get paranoid about it.
****
The final straw, though, is when he looks up after killing his latest teacher -- the one who planned to murder her husband and children -- and the blonde woman is standing no more than five feet from him, expression cold and hard as she stares down at his kill.
"What the fuck do you want from me?" Jason demands.
She startles at that, and turns wide blue eyes on him. "You can see me?!"
"You're right fucking there," Jason gestures at her, a wide and angry sweep of his arm, "of course I can!"
****
'You're right fucking there,' he said. Kara Zor-El, the only survivor of a vanished universe who still knows what she survived, realizes with those words that she is -- finally, truly -- not alone anymore.
"You can see me!" she repeats exultantly, and flies toward him. Jason goes on guard immediately, but it's useless (and, since she forgets to make herself corporeal, ultimately unnecessary). Kara's hands pass through his arms when she goes to take hold of his shoulders, and Jason jerks backward violently.
"What are you?"
"Oh... shoot." Kara mutters, realizing her mistake. A moment later, she smiles brightly at Jason. "I'm... a ghost?"
"Suddenly I can see ghosts." Jason says, in the flattest voice ever.
"Maybe it's because you were dead," Kara suggests. That's why she's been (trying) to look out for him. She found out he was dead on one of her few visits to Barbara -- one of the hardest things was watching her dear friend go on with life and not even miss her, though not as hard as when Kara had come back to find Babs paralyzed from an injury that Kara could have prevented, had she only still been alive. Babs cared about this Jason Todd, and he was a curiosity, having come back to life.
"You know ab-- of course you do." Jason heaves a sigh. "You know, if you're my guardian angel, I really ought to punch you, on principle."
Kara has to smirk at that. "Just try it, buddy boy. Just try it."