Re: Marvel FDNY: Clem & Declan
Clementine didn't think Alexander would come 'round, but then she knew she wouldn't neither. Her daddy always disliked his eldest boy born on the right side of the sheets, and Clementine had gone from thinking he had the prettiest blues to hating him like some demon thing from Hell. Wasn't a fence she was interested in patching, seeing as Alexander had rammed his damn Hummer into her over and over, and she'd been near dead weeks. But she didn't tell Declan that. She just gave him a smile that said she knew the lay of the land real well. "He'll try to turn you 'gainst me, if you talk to him," was all she said. And Declan could just make up his own mind.
Clementine, she wasn't no angel, but the only wings the Murphys had were ripped clean off something pure and white. Was just true, and the whole bunch was rotten. She wondered if he'd seen Chloe out there, and she wondered if Chloe had said she (Chloe) was bedded down with Alexander day in, day out. Probably not, but Clementine didn't go telling that neither. Just like her daddy lying dead in that bed, face smashed off and naked as the day he was born, some things weren't worth telling.
But Declan's admission that he'd got to working real hard, that made her look at him curious. But maybe it weren't real surprising. They'd both grown up different than those babies born to a momma with a shiny ring on her finger.
He joked and evaded her fingers at his temple, and then the fire alarm went and chirped, and Clem stood and moved toward the door quick as that. Changing gears mid-talk, mid-everything, that was real common in a firehouse. He tugged her hair, and she smacked his ass as she passed him. The grin on her lips was old summers, real entitled and owning the whole damn world. She'd fallen real far, but you couldn't change her spots.
"If you get hurt," she said as she ducked out the door and headed back toward her bus, "I promise to kiss it all better, honey."
A wink, and she was off to get bled on, a skip in her step, just like always when the adrenaline started flowing.