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Fandom: Read or Die
Pairing: Nenene Sumiregawa x Wendy Earhart
Theme Set: Alpha
Rating: PG-13ish
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#01 - Comfort
Wendy spends a long time awake the night after the I-jin incident, wracked with sympathy for poor Yomiko who's lost a girl she loves but not like a sister; but then the image rises in her mind of that green-eyed author-harpy Yomiko's so close with, and suddenly Wendy doesn't know who she wants to comfort and soothe and cuddle anymore.
#02 - Kiss
Her mind is quickly made up for her when Nenene herself arrives at Wendy's door, demanding to know where Yomiko is, and Wendy does what she does best: offers a cup of tea, with some whiskey thrown in to calm the pretty author down a bit; after three cups, Nenene ends up half in her lap, sobbing out the story about her first kiss.
#03 - Soft
"Softie," Nenene grins teasingly, catching Wendy's teardrops at such a romantic story with a fingertip.
#04 - Pain
Nenene doesn't know how Yomiko's dealing so well with it, finding out that their cute little blonde one-time friend has morphed into a ruthless robot-woman, because damned if she wouldn't like to knock some sense into Wendy herself.
#05 - Potatoes
Wendy rolls her eyes, knowing she's missing some kind of inside joke, when Nenene smirks a bit, then shoves her dinner tray back at the flight attendant and demands potatoes and curry instead.
#06 - Rain
"You always this nice to people you're kidnapping?" Nenene asks, raising one sopping wet eyebrow as Wendy unfolds and hands her a spare umbrella without a word.
#07 - Chocolate
"You got any coffee in this place?" Nenene asks, eyeing the cup of hot chocolate with deep loathing, nevertheless stealing all the marshmallows out of Wendy's cup while the blonde starts back to the kitchen.
#08 - Happiness
"Thanks for the pick-up," Wendy grumbles at the tall pale-haired man, shrewish from an hour's walk in the rain, in heels, with the organization's latest kidnap victim; Joker does not look happy, but Nenene hides a snicker, and thinks she might actually get to like this cold little super-bitch.
#09 - Telephone
"Yes, we did have a phone," Nenene agrees pleasantly with Joker, before glaring at a distinctly sheepish-looking Wendy, "until someone dropped it off a bridge trying to make a call."
#10 - Ears
"You've still got the ears wrong," Wendy tells the Mirror Man impatiently, and Will Callaghan wonders, suppressing a grin at the mental images, why Miss Wendy has spent enough time looking at Nenene Sumiregawa to know.
#11 - Name
"If you make one Peter Pan joke, I swear, I'll-" is as far as she gets before Nenene interrupts her: "Actually, I was thinking of the Wendy from The Shining; you have that being-hacked-at-by-your-axe-wielding-husband thing going."
#12 - Sensual
"Okay, I was lying, the smell of incense doesn't really inspire me, I'm just trying to be difficult," Nenene admits with a grin, and Wendy rolls her eyes, waving frantically to dispel the thick, fragrant smoke: "Well, then; mission accomplished."
#13 - Death
"You know, they might just kill you both," Nenene calls quietly to the girl she's been calling her attendant, "so you might want to let me go before someone gets hurt."
#14 - Sex
The Mirror Man's idea of getting Miss Wendy into bed using that Sumiregawa girl's shape fails miserably, and he has the bruises to show it, but that doesn't necessary disprove his theory; he's never been able to get her into bed using Joker's shape, either.
#15 - Touch
"I've been instructed to keep you comfortable, you know," the blonde shrugs, rubbing Nenene's back and shoulders, aching from hours hunched over a writing desk, as expertly as if she knew what she was doing, and Nenene smirks; "I thought Joker just told you to keep me here."
#16 - Weakness
"Yeah, I know you're a weakling," Nenene shrugs, "but having friends that come to rescue you whenever you get yourself kidnapped means you don't have to plan your own daring escapes - but I guess you wouldn't know; you'd need some real friends first."
#17 - Tears
When Wendy comes back from her latest visit to Miss Sumiregawa's holding cell shaking and streaked with tears, Joker instructs her, anoyed and concerned and annoyed at his own concern, to send someone else from now on, so she vows to be more careful next time.
#18 - Speed
Even as she's kissing a sad goodbye to all hopes of success anymore, Wendy can't help but be a little impressed by Sumiregawa's swiftness, not to mention cunning, as she hauls a several-hundred-page manuscript out from under her shirt and effectively turns the tide.
#19 - Wind
"He did, actually; pneumonia," Wendy replies, trying to be hard-boiled about it when Nenene remarks that Joker must have died or something if she's here, alone, on a bench outside a bookshop in Kolkata, and it's only slightly embarrassing when she finds the tears coming faster than the wind can dry them, because Sumiregawa already knows she's a softie.
#20 - Freedom
"Not a bad deal for you, though; you got to dance with the devil and still go free," Nenene smirks, and the next second, stumbles back, cheek hurting like hell from a punch landed by the blonde already hurrying resignedly off for some ice.
#21 - Life
"Let her live, Yomiko," Nenene burbles wetly when an astonished Paper Master emerges from the store, loaded down with books, to find an erstwhile enemy made out of an erstwhile friend industriously nursing her friend's bleeding nose; "I said something stupid, and she hit me, nothing sinister going on, but I'll yell if she starts kidnapping me again."
#22 - Jealousy
"She probably thinks the same about you," Wendy shrugs when Nenene laments, after Yomiko's scurried back into the store to pick out something special for Nancy, that the childlike blue-haired woman seems to be all she thinks about now.
#23 - Hands
"Finally broke the habit, huh?" she notes, grabbing Wendy's hand on impulse and smirking at the difference between the chewed-off nails she used to have and the dainty pale pink gloss she uses now to stop herself.
#24 - Taste
"Yeah, Junior told me about that place," Nenene snickers when Wendy mentions that she'll be in Tokyo to sell her apartment; "He said it was decorated by someone with no taste."
#25 - Devotion
"Oh, come on, you must know what I'm talking about," Wendy huffs impatiently; "You were dedicated to causes of your own - you know, silly things like freedom of thought and writing your own damn books," and unexpectedly, Nenene laughs.
#26 - Forever
"You're never going to tell them you're meeting me, are you?" Wendy asks softly on the fifth meeting of their Sisterhood of Grouchy Pissed-Off Bitches.
#27 - Blood
She never did get an answer, so she takes matters into her own hands and hunts up the Nenene's address to pay a visit even though she knows very well that blood may be spilt before the younger girl can even reach the door.
#28 - Sickness
Nenene learns anew that she's a far better person than she wants to be, when she storms over to Wendy's apartment to yell at her for riling everyone up when she was in the middle of a chapter, but finds her aching with flu and half-alive, and stays to put her to bed and make her some soup.
#29 - Melody
"I do it all day long at the office; does that count?" Wendy asks, eyes wide and hopeful when Nenene asks why she doesn't sing more often, because it's kind of pretty.
#30 - Star
"Ohh, I can't believe they didn't even give you a role in the movie adaptation of your own book; they should have let you star!" Wendy declared loudly, her Candy-Apple martini very nearly ending up in Nenene's lap as she gestured wildly.
#31 - Home
"God, how long do you have to live somewhere before it becomes home?" Nenene demands, furious and slightly worried, when her drinking buddy mentions recent thoughts of moving back to England.
#32 - Confusion
"Do you have some inborn barrier against making sense?" Wendy asks, breathless from a bitter argument that somehow ended with her pushed up against a wall and kissed until coherent thought was far beyond both of them.
#33 - Fear
Sometimes, Wendy thinks it might be a bad thing, being deathly afraid of your girlfriend's entire social network, but she suspects Nenene intends to change that very soon; unfortunately, that scares her even more.
#34 - Lightning/Thunder
There's something strangely endearing about it when Nenene drags her away from the window during a thunderstorm, and doesn't stop being jumpy and nervous until it passes.
#35 - Bonds
Nenene's never considered herself bound by the constraints of polite society, so when she wants to grab her girl's cute little backside in public, just to hear her squeak and see her turn red, well, she just goes ahead and does it.
#36 - Market
"Don't ever go into advertising," Nenene suggests kindly when Wendy describes a pre-packaged casserole as almost edible, with enough hot sauce.
#37 - Technology
"You knew that Gentleman-o-Matic inside and out, but you can't work a computer?" Nenene snorted in disbelief when Wendy announced grumpily that it still wasn't working.
#38 - Gift
"Wow…is this a gift for me, or for you?" Nenene wonders, holding up the skimpy little swimsuit, and laughing as Wendy, blushing brightly, admits that it was both.
#39 - Smile
Wendy thinks there's nothing more beautiful than Nenene when she's smiling (because after all, she's the kind of sap who thinks about these things), but the girl certainly doesn't waste her smiles; when she finds herself unconsciously trying very hard to earn them, she shivers a little at how easy it is to fall back into the pattern of living to please a lover.
#40 - Innocence
Nenene knows that Wendy will never be innocent like she was, but can see a familiar transparency returning now that she's not involved in directing secret plots and things, an inability to lie or pretend, and she thinks that's kind of like innocence.
#41 - Completion
It's kind of embarrassing, when Nenene and Wendy spend six hours on their new jigsaw puzzle with no headway, and then Maggie comes and joins the puzzle-party and has it done within another two.
#42 - Clouds
“I can't believe you've never tried cotton candy - it's so good, just like eating a cloud,” a little blonde insists, shoving the sweet, sticky concoction at a little brunette, who relents and tries it...and promptly chokes as her brain is overwhelmed by the sugar.
#43 - Sky
"Hey, you wanna go sky-diving today?" Nenene asks cheerfully, and Wendy just ignores her, because she's been asking it everyday since she found out about the blonde's secret, well-concealed fear of heights.
#44 - Heaven
“Oh, come on,” Nenene snorts; “Heaven is for saints like Yomiko and Maggie - what would they want with me?.”
#45 - Hell
“But I don't think Hell would take you, either,” Wendy counters softly; “It's only for people like Joker and me.”
#46 - Sun
“I hate you,” Nenene declares flatly when an entire day spent wandering around in the blazing sun leaves her bright red and sore everywhere, while her lover gets away looking a little browner than usual.
#47 - Moon
So Wendy makes it up to her by keeping her kidnapped a little longer, and rubs her sunburned skin with cooling aloe gel while the moonlight pours in through the window, and ends up keeping her for the rest of the night, because by the time she's done, Nenene's fallen sound asleep.
#48 - Waves
Nenene watches the waves rolling steadily in, then shakes her head as a dismayed little shriek and a thud testify that Wendy's not having much luck climbing around on those rocks.
#49 - Hair
“I'll only grow my hair long if you do, too,” Wendy says adamantly, and groans despairingly as Nenene shrugs and agrees.
#50 - Supernova
Nenene is doing exactly what she always wanted to do as a little girl; Wendy, not so much, because she never had the grades to be an astronaut.
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Pairing: Nenene Sumiregawa x Wendy Earhart
Theme Set: Alpha
Rating: PG-13ish
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#01 - Comfort
Wendy spends a long time awake the night after the I-jin incident, wracked with sympathy for poor Yomiko who's lost a girl she loves but not like a sister; but then the image rises in her mind of that green-eyed author-harpy Yomiko's so close with, and suddenly Wendy doesn't know who she wants to comfort and soothe and cuddle anymore.
#02 - Kiss
Her mind is quickly made up for her when Nenene herself arrives at Wendy's door, demanding to know where Yomiko is, and Wendy does what she does best: offers a cup of tea, with some whiskey thrown in to calm the pretty author down a bit; after three cups, Nenene ends up half in her lap, sobbing out the story about her first kiss.
#03 - Soft
"Softie," Nenene grins teasingly, catching Wendy's teardrops at such a romantic story with a fingertip.
#04 - Pain
Nenene doesn't know how Yomiko's dealing so well with it, finding out that their cute little blonde one-time friend has morphed into a ruthless robot-woman, because damned if she wouldn't like to knock some sense into Wendy herself.
#05 - Potatoes
Wendy rolls her eyes, knowing she's missing some kind of inside joke, when Nenene smirks a bit, then shoves her dinner tray back at the flight attendant and demands potatoes and curry instead.
#06 - Rain
"You always this nice to people you're kidnapping?" Nenene asks, raising one sopping wet eyebrow as Wendy unfolds and hands her a spare umbrella without a word.
#07 - Chocolate
"You got any coffee in this place?" Nenene asks, eyeing the cup of hot chocolate with deep loathing, nevertheless stealing all the marshmallows out of Wendy's cup while the blonde starts back to the kitchen.
#08 - Happiness
"Thanks for the pick-up," Wendy grumbles at the tall pale-haired man, shrewish from an hour's walk in the rain, in heels, with the organization's latest kidnap victim; Joker does not look happy, but Nenene hides a snicker, and thinks she might actually get to like this cold little super-bitch.
#09 - Telephone
"Yes, we did have a phone," Nenene agrees pleasantly with Joker, before glaring at a distinctly sheepish-looking Wendy, "until someone dropped it off a bridge trying to make a call."
#10 - Ears
"You've still got the ears wrong," Wendy tells the Mirror Man impatiently, and Will Callaghan wonders, suppressing a grin at the mental images, why Miss Wendy has spent enough time looking at Nenene Sumiregawa to know.
#11 - Name
"If you make one Peter Pan joke, I swear, I'll-" is as far as she gets before Nenene interrupts her: "Actually, I was thinking of the Wendy from The Shining; you have that being-hacked-at-by-your-axe-wielding-husband thing going."
#12 - Sensual
"Okay, I was lying, the smell of incense doesn't really inspire me, I'm just trying to be difficult," Nenene admits with a grin, and Wendy rolls her eyes, waving frantically to dispel the thick, fragrant smoke: "Well, then; mission accomplished."
#13 - Death
"You know, they might just kill you both," Nenene calls quietly to the girl she's been calling her attendant, "so you might want to let me go before someone gets hurt."
#14 - Sex
The Mirror Man's idea of getting Miss Wendy into bed using that Sumiregawa girl's shape fails miserably, and he has the bruises to show it, but that doesn't necessary disprove his theory; he's never been able to get her into bed using Joker's shape, either.
#15 - Touch
"I've been instructed to keep you comfortable, you know," the blonde shrugs, rubbing Nenene's back and shoulders, aching from hours hunched over a writing desk, as expertly as if she knew what she was doing, and Nenene smirks; "I thought Joker just told you to keep me here."
#16 - Weakness
"Yeah, I know you're a weakling," Nenene shrugs, "but having friends that come to rescue you whenever you get yourself kidnapped means you don't have to plan your own daring escapes - but I guess you wouldn't know; you'd need some real friends first."
#17 - Tears
When Wendy comes back from her latest visit to Miss Sumiregawa's holding cell shaking and streaked with tears, Joker instructs her, anoyed and concerned and annoyed at his own concern, to send someone else from now on, so she vows to be more careful next time.
#18 - Speed
Even as she's kissing a sad goodbye to all hopes of success anymore, Wendy can't help but be a little impressed by Sumiregawa's swiftness, not to mention cunning, as she hauls a several-hundred-page manuscript out from under her shirt and effectively turns the tide.
#19 - Wind
"He did, actually; pneumonia," Wendy replies, trying to be hard-boiled about it when Nenene remarks that Joker must have died or something if she's here, alone, on a bench outside a bookshop in Kolkata, and it's only slightly embarrassing when she finds the tears coming faster than the wind can dry them, because Sumiregawa already knows she's a softie.
#20 - Freedom
"Not a bad deal for you, though; you got to dance with the devil and still go free," Nenene smirks, and the next second, stumbles back, cheek hurting like hell from a punch landed by the blonde already hurrying resignedly off for some ice.
#21 - Life
"Let her live, Yomiko," Nenene burbles wetly when an astonished Paper Master emerges from the store, loaded down with books, to find an erstwhile enemy made out of an erstwhile friend industriously nursing her friend's bleeding nose; "I said something stupid, and she hit me, nothing sinister going on, but I'll yell if she starts kidnapping me again."
#22 - Jealousy
"She probably thinks the same about you," Wendy shrugs when Nenene laments, after Yomiko's scurried back into the store to pick out something special for Nancy, that the childlike blue-haired woman seems to be all she thinks about now.
#23 - Hands
"Finally broke the habit, huh?" she notes, grabbing Wendy's hand on impulse and smirking at the difference between the chewed-off nails she used to have and the dainty pale pink gloss she uses now to stop herself.
#24 - Taste
"Yeah, Junior told me about that place," Nenene snickers when Wendy mentions that she'll be in Tokyo to sell her apartment; "He said it was decorated by someone with no taste."
#25 - Devotion
"Oh, come on, you must know what I'm talking about," Wendy huffs impatiently; "You were dedicated to causes of your own - you know, silly things like freedom of thought and writing your own damn books," and unexpectedly, Nenene laughs.
#26 - Forever
"You're never going to tell them you're meeting me, are you?" Wendy asks softly on the fifth meeting of their Sisterhood of Grouchy Pissed-Off Bitches.
#27 - Blood
She never did get an answer, so she takes matters into her own hands and hunts up the Nenene's address to pay a visit even though she knows very well that blood may be spilt before the younger girl can even reach the door.
#28 - Sickness
Nenene learns anew that she's a far better person than she wants to be, when she storms over to Wendy's apartment to yell at her for riling everyone up when she was in the middle of a chapter, but finds her aching with flu and half-alive, and stays to put her to bed and make her some soup.
#29 - Melody
"I do it all day long at the office; does that count?" Wendy asks, eyes wide and hopeful when Nenene asks why she doesn't sing more often, because it's kind of pretty.
#30 - Star
"Ohh, I can't believe they didn't even give you a role in the movie adaptation of your own book; they should have let you star!" Wendy declared loudly, her Candy-Apple martini very nearly ending up in Nenene's lap as she gestured wildly.
#31 - Home
"God, how long do you have to live somewhere before it becomes home?" Nenene demands, furious and slightly worried, when her drinking buddy mentions recent thoughts of moving back to England.
#32 - Confusion
"Do you have some inborn barrier against making sense?" Wendy asks, breathless from a bitter argument that somehow ended with her pushed up against a wall and kissed until coherent thought was far beyond both of them.
#33 - Fear
Sometimes, Wendy thinks it might be a bad thing, being deathly afraid of your girlfriend's entire social network, but she suspects Nenene intends to change that very soon; unfortunately, that scares her even more.
#34 - Lightning/Thunder
There's something strangely endearing about it when Nenene drags her away from the window during a thunderstorm, and doesn't stop being jumpy and nervous until it passes.
#35 - Bonds
Nenene's never considered herself bound by the constraints of polite society, so when she wants to grab her girl's cute little backside in public, just to hear her squeak and see her turn red, well, she just goes ahead and does it.
#36 - Market
"Don't ever go into advertising," Nenene suggests kindly when Wendy describes a pre-packaged casserole as almost edible, with enough hot sauce.
#37 - Technology
"You knew that Gentleman-o-Matic inside and out, but you can't work a computer?" Nenene snorted in disbelief when Wendy announced grumpily that it still wasn't working.
#38 - Gift
"Wow…is this a gift for me, or for you?" Nenene wonders, holding up the skimpy little swimsuit, and laughing as Wendy, blushing brightly, admits that it was both.
#39 - Smile
Wendy thinks there's nothing more beautiful than Nenene when she's smiling (because after all, she's the kind of sap who thinks about these things), but the girl certainly doesn't waste her smiles; when she finds herself unconsciously trying very hard to earn them, she shivers a little at how easy it is to fall back into the pattern of living to please a lover.
#40 - Innocence
Nenene knows that Wendy will never be innocent like she was, but can see a familiar transparency returning now that she's not involved in directing secret plots and things, an inability to lie or pretend, and she thinks that's kind of like innocence.
#41 - Completion
It's kind of embarrassing, when Nenene and Wendy spend six hours on their new jigsaw puzzle with no headway, and then Maggie comes and joins the puzzle-party and has it done within another two.
#42 - Clouds
“I can't believe you've never tried cotton candy - it's so good, just like eating a cloud,” a little blonde insists, shoving the sweet, sticky concoction at a little brunette, who relents and tries it...and promptly chokes as her brain is overwhelmed by the sugar.
#43 - Sky
"Hey, you wanna go sky-diving today?" Nenene asks cheerfully, and Wendy just ignores her, because she's been asking it everyday since she found out about the blonde's secret, well-concealed fear of heights.
#44 - Heaven
“Oh, come on,” Nenene snorts; “Heaven is for saints like Yomiko and Maggie - what would they want with me?.”
#45 - Hell
“But I don't think Hell would take you, either,” Wendy counters softly; “It's only for people like Joker and me.”
#46 - Sun
“I hate you,” Nenene declares flatly when an entire day spent wandering around in the blazing sun leaves her bright red and sore everywhere, while her lover gets away looking a little browner than usual.
#47 - Moon
So Wendy makes it up to her by keeping her kidnapped a little longer, and rubs her sunburned skin with cooling aloe gel while the moonlight pours in through the window, and ends up keeping her for the rest of the night, because by the time she's done, Nenene's fallen sound asleep.
#48 - Waves
Nenene watches the waves rolling steadily in, then shakes her head as a dismayed little shriek and a thud testify that Wendy's not having much luck climbing around on those rocks.
#49 - Hair
“I'll only grow my hair long if you do, too,” Wendy says adamantly, and groans despairingly as Nenene shrugs and agrees.
#50 - Supernova
Nenene is doing exactly what she always wanted to do as a little girl; Wendy, not so much, because she never had the grades to be an astronaut.
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