Shake Your Body Line (DC Comics/Heroes crossover)

[browngirl]

Written for choc_fic.

Title: Shake Your Body Line
Fandom: DC Comics / Heroes crossover
Characters: Cass Cain (Batgirl III) & Monica Dawson
Rating: PG
Warnings: none, really
Summary: When Cassandra met Monica.
Disclaimer: These characters and their settings do not belong to me.



Cassandra grins, lowering her fists. Batman had warned her about an influx of new metas, and Robin had pointed out that some were likely to be in plainclothes. Even so, when she saw the girl flipping and dancing around her assailants, grin bright between her glossy red lips and laughter in every inch of her body, she was shocked by the sight, to realize there was something not merely human about the girl's movement.

The girl laughs, relaxing her own fists as she raises her hands to pat down her shiny black hair. Cass had leaped to apprehend her, moving silently, but the girl was spinning and spotted the movement; she whirled again, kicking the last thug in the jaw, cocked her hip and put her fists up, and for a moment Cass was reminded of Steph. But the first punch was overhand and nothing like Steph's at all.

Then she bows, smooth and low, and Cass presses her palms together and returns the gesture. Neither was the second punch, after she'd danced away from Cass's first attack--- the second punch was a copy of Cass's, the attack a rephrasing of her own. The way the girl fought, the way she blocked and evaded and then charged -- her moves were reflections of Cass's, sometimes rearranged, but the underlying voice... it was a little like Steph's, with echoes of some other people, but that hip-stance, that wiggle, that was a voice Cass hadn't heard before. One she liked.

"Hey, Gotham Girl." She smiles that bright red-framed grin again, her accent making her voice sound even warmer, and says, "This always how you say hi?" She was a little like Onyx too, beyond the superficialities of skin color, but she knew better than to try moves based on the sort of solidity Onyx has, which neither of them possess. Instead she danced Cass's moves back to her, laughing when they mirrored each other, then changing the order and landing a couple of hits. Cass caught herself and charged forward, the girl flipped up over her, and only rolling saved her from being landed on; she jumped over a groaning thug and spun to face the girl again, found her grinning from head to foot, and couldn't help but grin back.

"Yeah," Cass replies. "When you can dance." The girl's laugh is bright and open, and Cass can't keep from laughing with her any more than she could keep from grinning; she holds out her hand and Cass grasps it, and it feels ordinary and warm and strong. When Cass pushes her cowl back the girl tilts her head, pleased surprise shimmering down the lines of her body, and says, "All right, then. Hi there, I'm Monica."


Crossover: DC/Heroes, Cassandra Cain & Monica Dawson: what do they see in each others' eyes? What do their bodies say? (gen or femslash ok)-
"Excuse me, but can I be you for a while?" I'm not usually a crossover person, but this one I couldn't resist.

Comments

[msloserrific.livejournal.com]

I loved it. I think Cassandra and Monica's differing reactions to each other but the way they came together in the end was pretty awesome.

Just wondering, would you mind posting this at mimic_it? I'm sure people there would love to read it.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you, very much! I took your advice and have posted a link over at mimic_it (which is a nifty community, btw).

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oh very cool! I always love stories that use Cass' body-reading abilities well :)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D It just seemed like she'd 'hear' Monica really well. I wonder if the promptmaker had that in mind, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ming/]

oh, this is just perfection. i love the quick moves and observations, and the quicker trust. of course cass knows to push her cowl back. smart, graceful girls. <3

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Smart graceful girls indeed! That's exactly why I couldn't resist the prompt.

[sheepfairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, nifty! There's a really nice sense of movement through the whole thing, and I like how happy and excited Monica seems about using her power!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

"a nice sense of movement" made me do a little happy-dance of joy. And yeah, I found myself envisioning Monica reconciled to her power here. She deserves to be happy. :D

[capra-maritimus.livejournal.com]

You wrote!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D

And I don't care I have no idea who these people are. :D

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I wrote! Go me! *laugh*

You'd like them both, I think, but their surrounding canons are both not-unproblematic.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

YAY!

Oh, Cass. You can tell immediately what a hero Monica is. *VBG* This rocked.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*beams incandescently* Thank you, very, very much. :D

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

Ooh, lovely pairing! And I like the way you describe how Cass sees movement as voices, very nice.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I thought that metaphor would go with her ability to hear 'body language'.

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

I loved it! You should post this over to: heroes_dcu :D

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

heroes_dcu? Oh, that sounds interesting!

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

Your welcome! :D