True believer - DCU story, Diana, Dick, & Donna

[petra]

Title: True believer
Fandom: DCU (AU)
Summary: In A long way from home, Diana adopted Dick. This is what happened next. (Connected drabbles)
Rating: All ages
Pairing: Dick/Donna
Notes: Thanks to Betty and Mia for encouraging me. As per normal, the characters are not mine.


"What does the little one's name mean?" Queen Hippolyta asked.

"Power," Diana said, not meeting her mother's eyes. "Strength."

"You blush at strength?" Hippolyta laughed. "Surely it is not just that."

"That is his true name. The pet name he uses is something more like --" Diana used the primmest possible term.

Hippolyta laughed long and loud. "It benefits from accuracy, if nothing else."

Diana smiled wryly. "In Man's World, both names could mean the same thing."

Hippolyta sobered. "He will not remake our island in that image."

"Never. Hera grant I have learned to be a better mother than that."

*

Donna splashed Dick until his tunic was dripping. "There," she said, "now you might as well swim."

He peeled it off and left it on the riverbank. They ducked each other in great sprays of water until Dick dodged away, panting. "Hang on," he said, and leaned against the ladder rock.

"O, faint heart!" Donna splashed him again.

He didn't retaliate. "I'll be all right in a minute."

She frowned. "I'm sorry. I forgot." She rested a hand on the rock and patted his broadening shoulder. "Men are so fragile."

"No, women are so strong," he said, smiling at her.

*

"But Mother, when I kissed Artemis --" Donna pouted.

Hippolyta frowned. "Dick isn't Artemis. You can't be as free with him as you are with the others."

Donna glared at the wall. "If he were truly dangerous, Aphrodite would bar him from Themyscira. He's not like other men."

"In some ways, no." Diana touched her sister's shoulder. "If you restrained yourself to kissing --"

Donna's frown deepened. "He knows what the girls do. He'll think I don't care for him."

"I don't care to be a grandmother, and I shall tell him so." Hippolyta said.

Donna blushed. "As you say, Your Majesty."

*

"And Donna will go with you," Diana said.

Dick started breathing again. "All right."

Donna hugged him tightly. "We'll be fine if we're together."

Dick's memories of Man's World didn't reassure him on this score. "Can I come back?"

Diana touched his shoulder. "Aphrodite told us to send you off, but she did not forbid you to return."

"I won't leave you out there, even if I have to fight Zeus to get back." Donna gave him a determined squeeze.

Dick winced. "Gods grant it doesn't come to that."

Diana kissed Donna on the forehead, then Dick. "Come home safely."

*

At the end of the first week, Donna said, "I know this is your home, but I can't bear it."

Dick shook his head. "It's not my home anymore." He took her hand. "We can leave tonight."

Donna frowned. "Mother won't like it."

"She's not here."

"No." She embraced him and they landed together on the hotel bed. "Before we go home --" she kissed him.

Dick laughed and kissed her back. "Only before we go home?"

"They were angry --"

"Man's World has --" He blushed. "Precautions, that no one at home needs."

Donna smiled. "Ah. They must, after all. Show me?"

Comments

[chibi-squirt.livejournal.com]

One million hearts. <333333 I love little uninhibited Donna! And little Dickie with his "girls are so strong"! *draws kissie-shapes on their cheeks in lipstick*

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

okay, the word i'm looking for here is "charming," because that's what this is. charming to the point of total sweetness meltdown. :)

[katarik.livejournal.com]

N'awwwwwwwww. *smooshes them together*

Yeah, a Dick raised on Themyscira would have... issues... with the rest of the world that canon!Dick doesn't. Although I can't help vaguely wanting him to meet Roy. (If there wasn't ever a Robin, does that also mean there wasn't ever a Speedy?)

[one-eye-merc.livejournal.com]

Oh that was well done. I can see this as a very different world.

[chibi-squirt.livejournal.com]

Although I can't help vaguely wanting him to meet Roy.
I feel I *need* to see this fic. Please? *puppy-dog eyes*

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Dick learns readily.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly!

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I don't have the guts to go read my Silver Age Green Arrow to justify whether there is a Speedy or not.

At some point, their paths must cross.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

If you'd like to write it, go ahead.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY

and again I say unto thee

YAY!

[caia-comica.livejournal.com]

These are ADORABLE. I love the Amazons.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I, too, am extremely fond of them. Thanks for commenting.

[red-eft.livejournal.com]

Oh, *heart*. The idea of this universe makes me smile. Wee!Dick, and Donna!

Also, the irony of Dick's name had escaped me until the first drabble. Hee.

[deconcentrate.livejournal.com]

Oh my. ♥ to you for writing this, and hearts to Betty and Mia for encouraging it.

I'm fond of this Dick, so scared of the world he was born from but no longer belongs to, and of this Donna, the fearless to his efflusive (and both so full of grace).

I want more, but I am content with anything that makes me smile, these days.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

He probably feels rather like one does when listening to people being Ugly Americans, except that instead of Ugly Americans, he is faced with Patriarchy at every turn.

Half of his desire to go back is shame that his fellow men are such assholes, and half is fear that if he stays, he'll turn into one, too.

Someday, he'll venture out again, and meet a lonely millionaire and possibly Roy, depending.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I am glad they worked for you. They amuse me a great deal.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I generally manage to ignore that Dick's name means something until I get to a sex scene, but on Paradise Island, he sticks out like a sore appendage.

Wee!Dick and Donna have always gotten along like a house on fire.

[1-900-mimicry.livejournal.com]

My toes are curling. This is absolutely adorable.

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Belatedly but no less sincerely, thank you kindly!