Grim Fandango: Domino Hurley/Mercedes Colomar
Fandom: Grim Fandango
Pairing: Domino Hurley/Mercedes Colomar
Rating: G - R
Theme Set: Epsilon
Disclaimer: It's things like this that probably makes other people glad they're not mine.
Warnings: Stockholm Syndrome, blatant manipulation on both sides, dubious consent, and everything else that makes Dom/Meche my crack!OTP.
Notes: Sentences are drawn from various timelines, universes, etc. and are in no particular order and/or verb tense (*facepalm*). So, yes, they are going to be a bit bipolar at some points...then again, that's how the 'ship works, so far as I'm concerned. Mad props are also due to onsoullessfeet for inspiration on some of these.
#01 - Motion
Meche isn't sure which is making her more sick--the way the ship moves underneath her feet or Domino, with his hand on her waist to steady her and his sardonic remarks about her lack of sea-legs.
#02 - Cool
The vault is cold and damp, but Meche's surprisingly at ease here, knowing that at least now there's a foot of steel and stone between her and Domino.
#03 - Young
"You died young, didn't you?" he asked her out of the blue one night, startling her so much she couldn't even respond.
#04 - Last
This will end, Meche tells herself daily--although she still can't decide if being trapped at the Edge with Manny would be any better than being trapped at the Edge with Domino.
#05 - Wrong
"There a million things wrong around here," he murmured into her ear, his hands on her shoulders gentle but controlling, "so what's a million and one?"
#06 - Gentle
"Meche, sweetheart--" he takes her hand and sits down on the ship's bunk beside her-- "you have to understand...Calavera isn't your travel agent; he stole your case and screwed up the system."
#07 - One
"One saint can't be worth the time and effort you're taking, Mr. Hurley," she said softly, staring at his broad-shouldered form, which was silhouetted in the doorway to her cabin.
#08 - Thousand
"I've met a thousand saints, and they're all hypocrites and liars," he grumbled, although he had to resist adding, except you.
#09 - King
"I'm sorry," she snapped, lighting another cigarette and nervously tapping out ashes that didn't even exist yet, "should I be addressing these memos to 'His Majesty, Mr. Hurley' now?"
#10 - Learn
Slowly, she's learning--what this and that tone of voice means, what she can and can't get away with when Domino's back is turned and when it isn't, how to tell if he's been drinking and if it's (not) enough to cause concern, and how to punch a man twice her size and have it be effective.
#11 - Blur
"I was sort of hoping your company would make the whole 'eternity' thing go by a little faster," he told her once in what might have been an unguarded moment, although in retrospect she's starting to think it was just another one of his manipulative tactics.
#12 - Wait
"So once Manny gets here, you're leaving?" she asks, and without waiting for a response, quickly continues: "I won't wait up for you."
#13 - Change
She remembers when she started smoking, to the minute: it was when Domino had tossed her a pack of cigarettes after a particularly ugly argument, muttering, "You need to learn to lighten up."
#14 - Command
"You're right, sweetheart--" he grabbed her hand just as the tips of her fingers touched his gun-- "I do always have to be in control."
#15 - Hold
Domino was a very tactile person, or so it seemed--Meche could count the days of their journey to the Edge in the number of times he'd slid an arm around her waist, taken her hand, or latched onto her wrist.
#16 - Need
He wants her, needs her, and were she anyone else Meche would have used that to her advantage at every opportunity.
#17 - Vision
Domino would talk, sometimes, like she didn't exist or was merely a mute auditor--he'd talk about the plans he'd had and how being at the Edge screwed them all over, how the quiet was driving him crazy and how, dammit, the least she could do was talk to him once and a while.
#18 - Attention
"Okay," he said, trying and failing to pry her fingers away from his collar, "so you have my attention--now what?"
#19 - Soul
"Some people just have bad souls, you know--" idle fingers traced a line from her elbow to her shoulder-- "and some of you saints are way too impressionable."
#20 - Picture
Sunsets at the Edge were always pretty like postcards, made even more so by the fact that it was the one time when they could stand in the same room together and not end up at each other's throats.
#21 - Fool
"I'm no one's fool, Mr. Hurley--especially not yours," she muttered, slamming the stack of file folders down onto his desk and storming out of the room.
#22 - Mad
Domino looked first at the ripped and shredded papers thrown about the room, then at the woman who'd put them there: "I guess you're having another one of your 'mad days.'"
#23 - Child
The angelitos keep her busy, although they fast become a point of contention between her and Domino--whether because of all the times they've bitten him or because they draw her attention away from him, she can't say.
#24 - Now
He cracked open the vault door and put a leg in to test the waters--having learned the hard way from the last time they went through this--then opened the door a little wider: "You ready to come out now?"
#25 - Shadow
She knew the acoustics in the factory were horrible, that everything echoed, so she knew everyone could hear her on the nights she ended up crying herself to sleep, but still--the shadow of his feet, visible through the crack at the bottom of the door, startled her; she watched him pace for almost ten minutes, as if he were trying to decide to knock or not.
#26 - Goodbye
"You walk out into that ocean, I'm not going to cry over you, if that's what you're wondering."
#27 - Hide
She put the bullet under the rim of her hat, where he would never think to look--her own personal trump card, her chance to get one up on Domino.
#28 - Fortune
Meche looked at the financial reports sprawled out across his desk and spilling over onto the floor and shrugged, saying, "Well, I suppose you could rob a bank."
#29 - Safe
When he wraps his arms around her, she feels...not safe--no, never that--but slightly comforted in the knowledge that at least he won't kill her, won't let anything happen to the bait he's using to lure Manny in.
#30 - Ghost
Manny promised her there was no such thing as ghosts--and if there were, to believe him, he'd be the first to know about it--but even so, sometimes she could still hear Domino's voice ringing in her ears or feel his hand around her wrist.
#31 - Book
It had been instinct, a knee-jerk reaction to his typical snide remarks--so Meche was honestly surprised when the book's spine managed to hit Domino square in the forehead.
#32 - Eye
Domino had had to drag her below deck as soon as the storm let up a little, throwing his coat and a towel over her shoulders and swearing under his breath about how she'd die of hypothermia if she weren't already dead.
#33 - Never
"I've never been punched by a saint before," he said, massaging his jaw a little before continuing: "Kinda tingles."
#34 - Sing
Domino rattled the cage door, grinning at the woman beside him: "It's for the kids, relax--don't get me wrong, the whole 'caged bird' thing is a little appealing, but...you don't sing."
#35 - Sudden
"You must have died suddenly and horribly," Meche spat, "and if there were any justice in this afterworld you'd be doomed to repeat it."
#36 - Stop
"One of these days," Domino said, rubbing his shoulder ruefully, "you're going to have to admit you're hopelessly in love with me and quit beating me up over it."
#37 - Time
She's given up counting the days that've gone by; she found out a long time ago that it only makes her depressed and all the more likely to pick a fight with Domino.
#38 - Wash
She tried for days afterwards to wash Domino's scent--cigars and sweat and a sickening amount of cologne--out of her bones; she scrubbed, scratched, and scraped, but nothing seemed to remove it.
#39 - Torn
"You know, I could buy you a new dress when the ship gets into port next," he says, watching her and smiling that wry, arrogant--irresistible--smile when she glares up at him and keeps sewing.
#40 - History
"So we've got a bit of a history already," he began, pulling her to her feet and out onto the floor, taking her by the hand before adding: "Dance with me anyway?"
#41 - Power
It took her almost the entire year, but Meche finally learned that, even though she was half his size and nowhere near as strong as him, she did have a certain sway over Domino Hurley, whether he would admit it or not.
#42 - Bother
"Sorry, was I bothering you?" Domino asked, and as soon as she said "yes" stepped into the room anyway.
#43 - God
"No," he corrected, handing her a wine glass and sitting down in the chair across from her, "the best part about being a reaper--if there was a best part--was definitely getting to play God with people's fates."
#44 - Wall
"I hurt people," he hissed lowly, pushing her farther back against the wall and sliding the gun under her temple, "I tell them they have to walk, I kidnap them against their will and drag them out here--it's what I do, and dammit, you're no different!"
#45 - Naked
He had to clear his throat twice before he could talk without any sort of hitch in his voice: "And here I thought your clothes were glued on or something."
#46 - Drive
"I'm through playing your little games," she said, digging the heel of her shoe a little deeper into his foot, "and if anyone's going to be driven crazy here, Mr. Hurley, it's going to be you."
#47 - Harm (yes, it's a sequel to #44. -- ed.)
When he finally confessed that the gun hadn't even been loaded, she only smiled faintly and lingered in the doorway long enough to answer, "I knew that."
#48 - Precious
He sat down on top of her desk and slid a finger under her chin, forcing her to look up at him: "You're not cut out for reef mining, Meche--it's dangerous out there, and with you...well, that's just a risk I can't take."
#49 - Hunger
There's something in the way Domino looks at her sometimes, a predatory curl in his words, that in earlier days would have made her blood run cold.
#50 - Believe
"You're safe now, belleza," Manny whispers to her that night, over and over, and she clings to him as she slowly lets that message sink in, lets herself realize that Domino is at the bottom of the ocean and it's finally over.
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Pairing: Domino Hurley/Mercedes Colomar
Rating: G - R
Theme Set: Epsilon
Disclaimer: It's things like this that probably makes other people glad they're not mine.
Warnings: Stockholm Syndrome, blatant manipulation on both sides, dubious consent, and everything else that makes Dom/Meche my crack!OTP.
Notes: Sentences are drawn from various timelines, universes, etc. and are in no particular order and/or verb tense (*facepalm*). So, yes, they are going to be a bit bipolar at some points...then again, that's how the 'ship works, so far as I'm concerned. Mad props are also due to onsoullessfeet for inspiration on some of these.
#01 - Motion
Meche isn't sure which is making her more sick--the way the ship moves underneath her feet or Domino, with his hand on her waist to steady her and his sardonic remarks about her lack of sea-legs.
#02 - Cool
The vault is cold and damp, but Meche's surprisingly at ease here, knowing that at least now there's a foot of steel and stone between her and Domino.
#03 - Young
"You died young, didn't you?" he asked her out of the blue one night, startling her so much she couldn't even respond.
#04 - Last
This will end, Meche tells herself daily--although she still can't decide if being trapped at the Edge with Manny would be any better than being trapped at the Edge with Domino.
#05 - Wrong
"There a million things wrong around here," he murmured into her ear, his hands on her shoulders gentle but controlling, "so what's a million and one?"
#06 - Gentle
"Meche, sweetheart--" he takes her hand and sits down on the ship's bunk beside her-- "you have to understand...Calavera isn't your travel agent; he stole your case and screwed up the system."
#07 - One
"One saint can't be worth the time and effort you're taking, Mr. Hurley," she said softly, staring at his broad-shouldered form, which was silhouetted in the doorway to her cabin.
#08 - Thousand
"I've met a thousand saints, and they're all hypocrites and liars," he grumbled, although he had to resist adding, except you.
#09 - King
"I'm sorry," she snapped, lighting another cigarette and nervously tapping out ashes that didn't even exist yet, "should I be addressing these memos to 'His Majesty, Mr. Hurley' now?"
#10 - Learn
Slowly, she's learning--what this and that tone of voice means, what she can and can't get away with when Domino's back is turned and when it isn't, how to tell if he's been drinking and if it's (not) enough to cause concern, and how to punch a man twice her size and have it be effective.
#11 - Blur
"I was sort of hoping your company would make the whole 'eternity' thing go by a little faster," he told her once in what might have been an unguarded moment, although in retrospect she's starting to think it was just another one of his manipulative tactics.
#12 - Wait
"So once Manny gets here, you're leaving?" she asks, and without waiting for a response, quickly continues: "I won't wait up for you."
#13 - Change
She remembers when she started smoking, to the minute: it was when Domino had tossed her a pack of cigarettes after a particularly ugly argument, muttering, "You need to learn to lighten up."
#14 - Command
"You're right, sweetheart--" he grabbed her hand just as the tips of her fingers touched his gun-- "I do always have to be in control."
#15 - Hold
Domino was a very tactile person, or so it seemed--Meche could count the days of their journey to the Edge in the number of times he'd slid an arm around her waist, taken her hand, or latched onto her wrist.
#16 - Need
He wants her, needs her, and were she anyone else Meche would have used that to her advantage at every opportunity.
#17 - Vision
Domino would talk, sometimes, like she didn't exist or was merely a mute auditor--he'd talk about the plans he'd had and how being at the Edge screwed them all over, how the quiet was driving him crazy and how, dammit, the least she could do was talk to him once and a while.
#18 - Attention
"Okay," he said, trying and failing to pry her fingers away from his collar, "so you have my attention--now what?"
#19 - Soul
"Some people just have bad souls, you know--" idle fingers traced a line from her elbow to her shoulder-- "and some of you saints are way too impressionable."
#20 - Picture
Sunsets at the Edge were always pretty like postcards, made even more so by the fact that it was the one time when they could stand in the same room together and not end up at each other's throats.
#21 - Fool
"I'm no one's fool, Mr. Hurley--especially not yours," she muttered, slamming the stack of file folders down onto his desk and storming out of the room.
#22 - Mad
Domino looked first at the ripped and shredded papers thrown about the room, then at the woman who'd put them there: "I guess you're having another one of your 'mad days.'"
#23 - Child
The angelitos keep her busy, although they fast become a point of contention between her and Domino--whether because of all the times they've bitten him or because they draw her attention away from him, she can't say.
#24 - Now
He cracked open the vault door and put a leg in to test the waters--having learned the hard way from the last time they went through this--then opened the door a little wider: "You ready to come out now?"
#25 - Shadow
She knew the acoustics in the factory were horrible, that everything echoed, so she knew everyone could hear her on the nights she ended up crying herself to sleep, but still--the shadow of his feet, visible through the crack at the bottom of the door, startled her; she watched him pace for almost ten minutes, as if he were trying to decide to knock or not.
#26 - Goodbye
"You walk out into that ocean, I'm not going to cry over you, if that's what you're wondering."
#27 - Hide
She put the bullet under the rim of her hat, where he would never think to look--her own personal trump card, her chance to get one up on Domino.
#28 - Fortune
Meche looked at the financial reports sprawled out across his desk and spilling over onto the floor and shrugged, saying, "Well, I suppose you could rob a bank."
#29 - Safe
When he wraps his arms around her, she feels...not safe--no, never that--but slightly comforted in the knowledge that at least he won't kill her, won't let anything happen to the bait he's using to lure Manny in.
#30 - Ghost
Manny promised her there was no such thing as ghosts--and if there were, to believe him, he'd be the first to know about it--but even so, sometimes she could still hear Domino's voice ringing in her ears or feel his hand around her wrist.
#31 - Book
It had been instinct, a knee-jerk reaction to his typical snide remarks--so Meche was honestly surprised when the book's spine managed to hit Domino square in the forehead.
#32 - Eye
Domino had had to drag her below deck as soon as the storm let up a little, throwing his coat and a towel over her shoulders and swearing under his breath about how she'd die of hypothermia if she weren't already dead.
#33 - Never
"I've never been punched by a saint before," he said, massaging his jaw a little before continuing: "Kinda tingles."
#34 - Sing
Domino rattled the cage door, grinning at the woman beside him: "It's for the kids, relax--don't get me wrong, the whole 'caged bird' thing is a little appealing, but...you don't sing."
#35 - Sudden
"You must have died suddenly and horribly," Meche spat, "and if there were any justice in this afterworld you'd be doomed to repeat it."
#36 - Stop
"One of these days," Domino said, rubbing his shoulder ruefully, "you're going to have to admit you're hopelessly in love with me and quit beating me up over it."
#37 - Time
She's given up counting the days that've gone by; she found out a long time ago that it only makes her depressed and all the more likely to pick a fight with Domino.
#38 - Wash
She tried for days afterwards to wash Domino's scent--cigars and sweat and a sickening amount of cologne--out of her bones; she scrubbed, scratched, and scraped, but nothing seemed to remove it.
#39 - Torn
"You know, I could buy you a new dress when the ship gets into port next," he says, watching her and smiling that wry, arrogant--irresistible--smile when she glares up at him and keeps sewing.
#40 - History
"So we've got a bit of a history already," he began, pulling her to her feet and out onto the floor, taking her by the hand before adding: "Dance with me anyway?"
#41 - Power
It took her almost the entire year, but Meche finally learned that, even though she was half his size and nowhere near as strong as him, she did have a certain sway over Domino Hurley, whether he would admit it or not.
#42 - Bother
"Sorry, was I bothering you?" Domino asked, and as soon as she said "yes" stepped into the room anyway.
#43 - God
"No," he corrected, handing her a wine glass and sitting down in the chair across from her, "the best part about being a reaper--if there was a best part--was definitely getting to play God with people's fates."
#44 - Wall
"I hurt people," he hissed lowly, pushing her farther back against the wall and sliding the gun under her temple, "I tell them they have to walk, I kidnap them against their will and drag them out here--it's what I do, and dammit, you're no different!"
#45 - Naked
He had to clear his throat twice before he could talk without any sort of hitch in his voice: "And here I thought your clothes were glued on or something."
#46 - Drive
"I'm through playing your little games," she said, digging the heel of her shoe a little deeper into his foot, "and if anyone's going to be driven crazy here, Mr. Hurley, it's going to be you."
#47 - Harm (yes, it's a sequel to #44. -- ed.)
When he finally confessed that the gun hadn't even been loaded, she only smiled faintly and lingered in the doorway long enough to answer, "I knew that."
#48 - Precious
He sat down on top of her desk and slid a finger under her chin, forcing her to look up at him: "You're not cut out for reef mining, Meche--it's dangerous out there, and with you...well, that's just a risk I can't take."
#49 - Hunger
There's something in the way Domino looks at her sometimes, a predatory curl in his words, that in earlier days would have made her blood run cold.
#50 - Believe
"You're safe now, belleza," Manny whispers to her that night, over and over, and she clings to him as she slowly lets that message sink in, lets herself realize that Domino is at the bottom of the ocean and it's finally over.
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