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Take Me Home by Anonymous (PG)
Fandom: WATCHMEN
Characters: Nite Owl, Rorschach, OC
Length: ~35,000
Author on LJ: Anonymous
Author Website: Watchmen Kinkmeme v. 5.0
Why this must be read:
This is a ghost story of the highest caliber, taking one of the classic ghost story tropes and turning it into an all-too-possible adventure in the Watchmen-verse. The characters are beautifully and poignantly written, and the story has just the right amount of creepiness to keep one wanting more.
"They're almost past the factory when both men hear it. They simultaneously stiffen and stop in their tracks, listening. Like hunting dogs on point casting around for the source of a scent, Nite Owl and Rorschach turn slowly, their senses hyper-alert. It doesn't take long to pinpoint where the high-pitched childish weeping is coming from. They head down an alley that runs between the shuttered factory and another vacant building with a faded 'For Sale' sign in its front window.
She's sitting on a crate next to a kicked-in door, a young girl of no more than seven or eight years old, clutching a bedraggled doll and sobbing her heart out. The sight of her melts Dan's own heart instantly, and from the noise his partner makes deep in his throat he knows that Rorschach feels the same mix of pity and astonishment; because what in the world is a child this young doing all alone out here at almost two in the morning? There's nothing residential around here for at least a mile, maybe more.
Rorschach snaps out of it before Dan does, and moves toward the girl. As he watches his partner approach the child, something occurs to Dan and he reverses their usual roles and becomes the cautious one, hanging back and looking all around. If the criminals they came to catch tonight failed to show up because someone tipped them off that Nite Owl and Rorschach were waiting for them, the perfect bait for a trap would be a crying child out by herself in a dangerous area..."
Take Me Home
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Characters: Nite Owl, Rorschach, OC
Length: ~35,000
Author on LJ: Anonymous
Author Website: Watchmen Kinkmeme v. 5.0
Why this must be read:
This is a ghost story of the highest caliber, taking one of the classic ghost story tropes and turning it into an all-too-possible adventure in the Watchmen-verse. The characters are beautifully and poignantly written, and the story has just the right amount of creepiness to keep one wanting more.
"They're almost past the factory when both men hear it. They simultaneously stiffen and stop in their tracks, listening. Like hunting dogs on point casting around for the source of a scent, Nite Owl and Rorschach turn slowly, their senses hyper-alert. It doesn't take long to pinpoint where the high-pitched childish weeping is coming from. They head down an alley that runs between the shuttered factory and another vacant building with a faded 'For Sale' sign in its front window.
She's sitting on a crate next to a kicked-in door, a young girl of no more than seven or eight years old, clutching a bedraggled doll and sobbing her heart out. The sight of her melts Dan's own heart instantly, and from the noise his partner makes deep in his throat he knows that Rorschach feels the same mix of pity and astonishment; because what in the world is a child this young doing all alone out here at almost two in the morning? There's nothing residential around here for at least a mile, maybe more.
Rorschach snaps out of it before Dan does, and moves toward the girl. As he watches his partner approach the child, something occurs to Dan and he reverses their usual roles and becomes the cautious one, hanging back and looking all around. If the criminals they came to catch tonight failed to show up because someone tipped them off that Nite Owl and Rorschach were waiting for them, the perfect bait for a trap would be a crying child out by herself in a dangerous area..."
Take Me Home
(Authors - even anonymous ones - love feedback. Please leave a word or two if you enjoy their work! :) )