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Rite of Confirmation by Corbeau Noir (PG)
Fandom: JUSTICE LEAGUE
Pairing: Wonder Woman / Hawkgirl
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corbeaun
Author Website: dissonance
Why this must be read:
This is an odd rec for me to make. This story shouldn't work. The context has been rendered completely AU by canon, the characters in the pairing canonically get along "like oil and water," and also one of the characters' names is spelled wrong throughout the piece.
But it works, somehow it works, and it's lovely and sad and while I've at least glanced at most of the femslash in the fandom, this is the only one that has ever made me believe HG/WW as a potential pairing. This is a story that not only overcomes its own flaws, but makes the rest of the text seem even sweeter in comparison.
The first thing she tells Diana afterwards is: "This is only temporary." They are on the couch, she has her hand on Diana's stomach, and she means what she says. She will mean it still when she says it the second time, then the third, the fourth, and later when she stops counting.
"This is temporary," she says, not to be cruel but because it is truth, the way Earth can never be Thanagar truth, the way Diana can never be Katar truth. "Temporary," she will say, and Diana always smiles up at her from wherever they are lying -- bed, couch, floor, table -- and kiss her.
Rite of Confirmation
Pairing: Wonder Woman / Hawkgirl
Author on LJ:
corbeaunAuthor Website: dissonance
Why this must be read:
This is an odd rec for me to make. This story shouldn't work. The context has been rendered completely AU by canon, the characters in the pairing canonically get along "like oil and water," and also one of the characters' names is spelled wrong throughout the piece.
But it works, somehow it works, and it's lovely and sad and while I've at least glanced at most of the femslash in the fandom, this is the only one that has ever made me believe HG/WW as a potential pairing. This is a story that not only overcomes its own flaws, but makes the rest of the text seem even sweeter in comparison.
The first thing she tells Diana afterwards is: "This is only temporary." They are on the couch, she has her hand on Diana's stomach, and she means what she says. She will mean it still when she says it the second time, then the third, the fourth, and later when she stops counting.
"This is temporary," she says, not to be cruel but because it is truth, the way Earth can never be Thanagar truth, the way Diana can never be Katar truth. "Temporary," she will say, and Diana always smiles up at her from wherever they are lying -- bed, couch, floor, table -- and kiss her.
Rite of Confirmation