u(゚Д゚u) (oncechained) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-10-02 18:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, aurora [disney], laura kinney (wolverine) |
Who: Laura and Aurora
What: A tiff during the Purge tower
When: Last week
Where: Near Aurora's house
Rating: PG-13
Laura had been grateful, generally, that on the day everyone had gotten all lust-addled, she hadn’t been near Aurora. She didn’t know how she’d have reacted, but that wasn’t the circumstances she ever wanted to do that with Aurora under.
It had felt safe today to check on her. The mercenaries had been getting worse all day, and she just wanted to make sure her girlfriend was safe.
It was okay to call her that right?
Things in the OC had been strange again. Really, Aurora had been around for the last strange thing, but this? This was an entirely different scenario. She hadn’t really had to deal with too much of the fall out because she’d mostly stayed indoors except for when she had to go to school. There wasn’t really much she could do about that. She had to go to school. She really didn’t want to get behind in school because the OC was behaving weirdly.
Phone calls had gone wonky and texts had gone to the wrong people, but she hadn’t had to worry too much about anything else, right?
Wrong.
Today she was in a mood. She was almost never in a mood, which made this unusual for her. Not that she was aware that this was what was happening. She just knew she was in a bad mood today about...well...something. She wasn’t really sure. Maybe it was everything, maybe it was nothing
Laura skidded to a stop on her bike. It was still too warm for her favorite jacket, but she hadn’t bothered with her costume today. Just jeans and a tank top under a fishnet shirt. Normally she’d have smiled, said hello. Today she just said, “Why are you outside?”
Aurora looked up, the annoyance swelling a little. She didn’t really know why, but then she wasn’t really questioning it at the moment either. She just knew it was fact. Most of the time she’d have jumped up and given Laura her hundred-watt smile, but not today. Today she just looked up, squinting at her.
“What’s it matter to you why I’m sitting outside?”
“People are shooting at people,” Laura pointed out. She swung off of her bike and approached Aurora. “Don’t be stupid, you could get killed.”
“People could shoot me just as easily inside if they wanted to.” Her mouth was set in a half frown and she stood up slowly. “I can take care of myself.” Which was pretty fairly a lie. She was trying to be better, but she wasn't. Not really. “You don't have to come rescue me all the time from things that aren't even happening.”
Laura gestured in the general direction of bad. “Things that aren’t happening? There’s a full scale invasion! You can’t take care of yourself, and I’m not going to risk anything happening to you.” She lowered her hand and growled something about Aurora being tempting bait.
“Yeah, but nothing’s happening here. I’m fine.” She sounded exasperated. “So what? Now you don’t trust me? Well, fine.” Her expression scrunched up a little more and she frowned. “COME AND GET ME, WHOEVER IS OUT THERE.” Because apparently that was the adult thing to do. “See? Nothing happened.”
“Don’t do that!” Laura grabbed for Aurora, fully intending on both covering her mouth and picking her up. “How can you be so naive?”
Most days, she loved that about Aurora. Her innocence and her inner light. Today, it was like everything made her angry.
Aurora refused to be picked up and squirmed until she was able to get away. “You can't tell me what to do. This is my yard. If you want someone to just do whatever you say whenever you say it and play damsel in distress go find somebody else.”
Her eyes narrowed and she walked away. “I don't need you trying to rescue me all the time. I'm sick of people treating me like I'm some fragile child all the time because I'm not as strong as they are and I don't have powers. I can do this on my own.”
“Aurora!” Laura grabbed for her again, trying to grab her wrist to keep her from running away. She could feel her arms tensing, her claws threatening to come out. But she was also seeing red because Aurora was just being so unreasonable.
Aurora turned around, narrowing her eyes as she felt Laura’s hand around her wrist. “Let me go.” She yanked back on her arm. “You can’t just grab someone because they aren’t doing something you want them to do.” She didn’t feel like she was being unreasonable. She was pretty sure that Laura was the unreasonable one and she was just trying to get away. She didn’t want to be around her, which was unusual.
“Go inside! Before I make you!” Laura was deceptively strong, with the proportional strength of a pissed off wolverine, or something. “Don’t make me say it twice.”
The only thing keeping her from raising her fist was a great deal of experience dealing with losing control. And she hadn’t really lost control yet. Which should have been a clue something was wrong, if she was fighting something inside her like that.
“No.” She didn’t really care if Laura was stronger than her. She knew that she would probably use that against her, but that didn’t really stop her from trying to pull her arm out of Laura’s grasp and get out of the situation she was in. She just wanted to get away from her. She’d probably try to fight to get out of her hold.
“You can’t just tell people what to do all the time. You’re not the boss of me.”
“If you were anyone else,” Laura muttered, and tried to throw Aurora over her shoulder.
Aurora really wanted to be able to say she was stronger than Laura because she'd have been able to avoid being thrown over the other girl’s shoulder if she was. “I said get off me!” She punctuated that with a quick hit to Laura’s back.
There was enough force in that hit that it startled Laura for a moment. Not enough to drop her, but it had actually hurt. She responded by actually slapping her hand on Aurora’s butt. “Stop that.”
Aurora glared at Laura’s back. “Well, maybe if you would GET OFF ME LIKE I TOLD YOU TO, I wouldn’t have to hit you!” She squirmed and she was tempted to hit her again...over and over until she let her go. “Put me down this INSTANT!”
“No!” Laura started carrying Aurora to her motorcycle. “I’m going to tie you up, and… stop hitting me!” She dropped Aurora onto the rear seat of the motorcycle and grabbed her by both arms and shook her. It would be easy to just pop her claws and be done with it.
The violent thought made her jerk back from Aurora in shock.
“You most certainly will NOT tie me up! If that's your plan I'm never speaking to you again.” And no. She wasn't going to stop. She wasn't really sure how being put on the motorcycle was going to change things or make her stay put. In fact, the moment that Laura jerked back, Aurora scrambled off the motorcycle and ran toward her greenhouse.
Laura let her go, hands balled up into fists. At least Aurora was going inside, but she was horrified at what she’d been about to do. Instead of chasing after her, she got back onto her bike, hoping to find some mercenaries to shred into little pieces. She wasn’t sure it would help.