Watchmen, Silk Spectre II/Janey Slater, apologise
After Jon leaves her Janey can’t shake the bitterness. It’s acid inside her every hour or everyday. All she can do is hate them, Jon and the little bitch, as she calls Laurie Juspeczyk.
Janey drinks too much, after Jon leaves. Mostly she drinks alone but one night she goes out to a bar. Men notice her, she still has her looks. They’re drawn to her from afar but when they get up close her bitterness sends them running. She’s glad. It makes her feel like a witch, like she has power.
She staggers home alone after the bar closes. It’s a stupid, reckless thing to do but who’s going to mess with a venomous hag like her?
Turns out a couple of teenage punks are only too eager to take her on. One grabs her arms and the other tries to snatch her purse. She ought to let them take what they want but Janey’s drunk and in the mood for a fight. She won’t give up her bag and struggles against them. One boy punches her in the mouth and things are about to get ugly when suddenly—WHACK, THUD—Janey’s attackers go flying, sprawl on the pavement, eyes wide with shock and fear then run off into the night.
“Are you okay, lady,” a female voice asks. “Can I take you home?”
Janey looks up. It’s the little bitch, none other than Laurie Juspeczyk in her skimpy yellow and black costume.
“Oh…” Laurie says when she recognizes Janey. Suddenly she’s on her guard, expecting trouble, a drunken tirade or a slap but Janey isn’t so obvious. Despite the alcohol her mind whirls with plans for sweet revenge.
“Thank you,” Janey says with convincing earnestness. “I think I’m all right, just shaken up. Will you take me home?”
Laurie Jaspeczyk is seventeen years old and she’s spent most of her life in a gym learning how to do high kicks in stiletto heels. Seducing her is almost too easy. All Janey has to do is fake a little gratitude and interest. Within an hour she has the little bitch on her back, legs splayed moaning and screaming and shaking the headboard as Janey finger-fucks her within an inch of her life.
It’s supposed to be revenge but by the time she’s done Janey has sobered up and only feels self-disgust. What was she thinking? What has she done? It won’t hurt Jon, Jon is untouched and untouchable. It’ll only hurt Janey, who has to live with what she’s done, and Laurie, when she figures out she’s been taken advantage of.
“I wanted to apologize,” Laurie says afterwards, “about how things happened between me and Jon.”
Janey lights a cigarette and turns away.
“Yeah,” she says. “Well, these things happen. I’m sorry too.”