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Janelle Monae Challenge #3, #1 & #9
Title: Higher Further Faster
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: T
Prompt: 3. Mess me up, yeah, but no one does it better
Word Count: 222
Summary: All her life Carol has wanted to go faster, and since the moment she and Maria had met they’ve pushed each other to do just that.
It’s only the most obvious thing that the two of them have in common, but nonetheless it’s the one they always come back to. All her life Carol has wanted to go faster, and since the moment she and Maria had met they’ve pushed each other to do just that.
Messing around with cars, making them go faster and faster so they could push them to their limit on the road, had been where it started. Then from the first oil-smeared kiss under the chassis of one of their beloved cars, it’s been about pushing each other’s bodies further. Higher, further, faster becomes their motto on base and off, a private double entendre and secret joy.
(So what if it isn’t allowed, they aren’t allowed to fly but they do anyway, if either of them cared that much about what women are ‘allowed’ to do or to want, they wouldn’t be here in the first place. They’ve grown adept at biting their tongues and keeping secrets, their own and others. It’s worth the risk. To Fly. To be together.)
They still love to race, but now the race to get home after a long day on base is just as important as that early morning run out to those test flights, a different kind of adrenaline but no less necessary to them.
Title: Hiding in Plain Sight
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: T
Prompt: 1. Little rough around the edges, but I keep it smooth
Word Count: 450
Summary: Maria teaches Carol how to hide in plain sight.
At first sight, they have nothing in common but it quickly becomes evident that they are not only the only two women in their intake, but they are the true speed freaks in the room, and Carol is quite clearly the only other person Maria’d let under her car’s hood. On the one hand, Carol is loyal to a fault and once she decides she’s on Maria’s side she has her back completely. On the other hand, Carol is dangerous. She doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks of her and Maria is genuinely amazed she’s been pulled up for insubordination as few times as she has. (It probably helps that Carol is usually right, if boot-camp taught Carol anything, it was how to pick her battles.) Maria quickly realises that they have something else in common – Maria doesn’t ask, Carol doesn’t tell, but nonetheless they know – and Maria suspects that she ought to run as far from Carol as she can before she gets them both dishonourably discharged.
It turns out though, that Carol isn’t so much devil-may-care about her sexuality, as she is clueless. She hasn’t the faintest idea how to be subtle because she didn’t even realise that this was a thing she could be, rather than just another insult that boys threw at you when they were being sore losers. At which point, Maria reckons she owes Carol for all the pep talks and baby-sitting, the least she can do is teach her how to hide in plain sight.
Maria teaches Carol to take care of her nails, nothing high maintenance, just a little TLC, to let her curls and her carefully manicured nails tell little lies of omission to their colleagues. (If Maria sells proper nail care to Carol with a rather practical demonstration one evening, then well, that’s their business.) The way she herself wears her ex like armour, a single mother uninterested in some flyboy who’ll only let her daughter down too. It’s a fine line they walk, too girly and no one will take them seriously, too butch and the truth might slip through.
It turns out, that she was right not to run from Carol, because it’s so much easier with two, when you always have someone to cover your six. And where Carol will be reckless with her own safety, she is ridiculously loyal, and she will bite her own tongue bloody rather than get Maria in trouble.
Carol may be a little rough around the edges, and not nearly as smooth as she’d like to think, but she’s an excellent lover and an even better friend, and there’s no one on earth Maria would rather raise her daughter with.
Title: Something Worth Fighting For
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: PG
Prompt: 9. You better know what you're fighting for
Word Count: 400
Summary: Carol may not be 100% sure who she is now, but she does know exactly what she's fight for.
Vers had six years of memories, nightmares that didn’t make sense, powers she couldn’t quite control and got up every morning to fight because it was all she knew. Kree society was almost entirely focused on war – and from a distance she can see, on endless empire building – so it was easy to go with the flow and follow her soldier’s instincts and join the war. In retrospect, she’s amazed she was as effective an asset as she was, she had no real idea what she was fighting for, and everything she had known had turned out to be a lie.
Carol has a patchy memory, a handful of dubious alliances, moderate to severe PTSD and a family that haven’t seen her in six years but welcome her in as though she’s been gone six months. She’s barely been home but she’s more certain that this place – these people – are where she belongs, and yet here she is about to jet back off into outer space. Not because she wants to, realistically, she want’s nothing more than to take refuge with Maria and her – their – daughter, but because she needs to do this. She’s not sure if it makes it better or worse that Maria understands, that she says ‘come home safe’, instead of ‘stay’. But then Maria’s always got all the things about Carol that she’d struggled to explain to everyone else in her life.
However much she knows that logically, she was a prisoner of war, brainwashed and indoctrinated to be a soldier in the cause of a lie, but now that she has full control of her powers – no longer hobbled by the Kree’s technology – she cannot deny the responsibility she feels to make amends. She’d always trusted and admired Dr Lawson - Mar-Velle she knows now – and now she knows the full scope of work that was lost with her, Carol feels that continuing her work is a fitting way to repay that debt. Besides, despite her standoff with the Accusers, she knows they’ll eventually return to attack Earth properly and she needs to stop that before it can start. Whatever else she does, she can’t countenance any attack on Earth, on her home and family.
Carol did not start this war, but she will end it, and like her Skrull companions she knows exactly what she is fighting for, for a place she calls home.
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: T
Prompt: 3. Mess me up, yeah, but no one does it better
Word Count: 222
Summary: All her life Carol has wanted to go faster, and since the moment she and Maria had met they’ve pushed each other to do just that.
It’s only the most obvious thing that the two of them have in common, but nonetheless it’s the one they always come back to. All her life Carol has wanted to go faster, and since the moment she and Maria had met they’ve pushed each other to do just that.
Messing around with cars, making them go faster and faster so they could push them to their limit on the road, had been where it started. Then from the first oil-smeared kiss under the chassis of one of their beloved cars, it’s been about pushing each other’s bodies further. Higher, further, faster becomes their motto on base and off, a private double entendre and secret joy.
(So what if it isn’t allowed, they aren’t allowed to fly but they do anyway, if either of them cared that much about what women are ‘allowed’ to do or to want, they wouldn’t be here in the first place. They’ve grown adept at biting their tongues and keeping secrets, their own and others. It’s worth the risk. To Fly. To be together.)
They still love to race, but now the race to get home after a long day on base is just as important as that early morning run out to those test flights, a different kind of adrenaline but no less necessary to them.
Title: Hiding in Plain Sight
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: T
Prompt: 1. Little rough around the edges, but I keep it smooth
Word Count: 450
Summary: Maria teaches Carol how to hide in plain sight.
At first sight, they have nothing in common but it quickly becomes evident that they are not only the only two women in their intake, but they are the true speed freaks in the room, and Carol is quite clearly the only other person Maria’d let under her car’s hood. On the one hand, Carol is loyal to a fault and once she decides she’s on Maria’s side she has her back completely. On the other hand, Carol is dangerous. She doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks of her and Maria is genuinely amazed she’s been pulled up for insubordination as few times as she has. (It probably helps that Carol is usually right, if boot-camp taught Carol anything, it was how to pick her battles.) Maria quickly realises that they have something else in common – Maria doesn’t ask, Carol doesn’t tell, but nonetheless they know – and Maria suspects that she ought to run as far from Carol as she can before she gets them both dishonourably discharged.
It turns out though, that Carol isn’t so much devil-may-care about her sexuality, as she is clueless. She hasn’t the faintest idea how to be subtle because she didn’t even realise that this was a thing she could be, rather than just another insult that boys threw at you when they were being sore losers. At which point, Maria reckons she owes Carol for all the pep talks and baby-sitting, the least she can do is teach her how to hide in plain sight.
Maria teaches Carol to take care of her nails, nothing high maintenance, just a little TLC, to let her curls and her carefully manicured nails tell little lies of omission to their colleagues. (If Maria sells proper nail care to Carol with a rather practical demonstration one evening, then well, that’s their business.) The way she herself wears her ex like armour, a single mother uninterested in some flyboy who’ll only let her daughter down too. It’s a fine line they walk, too girly and no one will take them seriously, too butch and the truth might slip through.
It turns out, that she was right not to run from Carol, because it’s so much easier with two, when you always have someone to cover your six. And where Carol will be reckless with her own safety, she is ridiculously loyal, and she will bite her own tongue bloody rather than get Maria in trouble.
Carol may be a little rough around the edges, and not nearly as smooth as she’d like to think, but she’s an excellent lover and an even better friend, and there’s no one on earth Maria would rather raise her daughter with.
Title: Something Worth Fighting For
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: PG
Prompt: 9. You better know what you're fighting for
Word Count: 400
Summary: Carol may not be 100% sure who she is now, but she does know exactly what she's fight for.
Vers had six years of memories, nightmares that didn’t make sense, powers she couldn’t quite control and got up every morning to fight because it was all she knew. Kree society was almost entirely focused on war – and from a distance she can see, on endless empire building – so it was easy to go with the flow and follow her soldier’s instincts and join the war. In retrospect, she’s amazed she was as effective an asset as she was, she had no real idea what she was fighting for, and everything she had known had turned out to be a lie.
Carol has a patchy memory, a handful of dubious alliances, moderate to severe PTSD and a family that haven’t seen her in six years but welcome her in as though she’s been gone six months. She’s barely been home but she’s more certain that this place – these people – are where she belongs, and yet here she is about to jet back off into outer space. Not because she wants to, realistically, she want’s nothing more than to take refuge with Maria and her – their – daughter, but because she needs to do this. She’s not sure if it makes it better or worse that Maria understands, that she says ‘come home safe’, instead of ‘stay’. But then Maria’s always got all the things about Carol that she’d struggled to explain to everyone else in her life.
However much she knows that logically, she was a prisoner of war, brainwashed and indoctrinated to be a soldier in the cause of a lie, but now that she has full control of her powers – no longer hobbled by the Kree’s technology – she cannot deny the responsibility she feels to make amends. She’d always trusted and admired Dr Lawson - Mar-Velle she knows now – and now she knows the full scope of work that was lost with her, Carol feels that continuing her work is a fitting way to repay that debt. Besides, despite her standoff with the Accusers, she knows they’ll eventually return to attack Earth properly and she needs to stop that before it can start. Whatever else she does, she can’t countenance any attack on Earth, on her home and family.
Carol did not start this war, but she will end it, and like her Skrull companions she knows exactly what she is fighting for, for a place she calls home.