La pasticherie de Petra

Title: If you're on fire (7300 words)

The title comes from My Fair Lady, from a song in which the protagonist sings about how tired she is of people talking instead of acting. I bet Cass has days like that.

Fandom: DCU (AU starting after Robin: Unmasked)
Summary: She can see it now -- Batgirl and Spoiler, taking down the hardened, nasty thugs of Blüdhaven, saving the city from itself, quick and fast and partners -- because Nightwing didn't have one, and it might make all the difference.
Rating: Adult
Notes: For monkeycrackmary because she brings joy to those around her.
Thanks to jamjar for the beta.

Commentary for Zee.

( Story and notes )

Title: And flings an oath, but says no more (Reference)
Series: Three red words Story #3
Fandom: DCU (AU from Nightwing #93 and mid-Robin: Unmasked, spoilers in an AU way for Identity Crisis and Under the Hood)
Summary: She smiles and says, "Hey, boss," like he's all suited up and grim as normal.
Content: All ages as your average Batman comic book.
Notes: If you have read my And light of foot, and unconfined, this will be comprehensible with or without Te's And the sun, its passionate face. If all my gen makes you antsy, read either this or 'And light of foot' and go read Te's slash. Thanks to brown_betty for beta-reading.

( Batman needs a Robin. )

Title: If you're on fire (7300 words)
Fandom: DCU (AU starting after Robin: Unmasked)
Summary: She can see it now -- Batgirl and Spoiler, taking down the hardened, nasty thugs of Blüdhaven, saving the city from itself, quick and fast and partners -- because Nightwing didn't have one, and it might make all the difference.
Rating: Adult
Notes: For monkeycrackmary because she brings joy to those around her. Originally posted here.
Thanks to jamjar for the beta.

( Batman never made Steph Spoiler, and he can't make her stop. )

Today, I need to water the garden.

Then, I should call all the people I've interviewed with and hear them tell me I don't have a job offer.

Then, I should shop for a suit for August that doesn't make me look fat.

Then, I should learn to bake bread from scratch, unpack all the boxes in the house, lose thirty pounds, stop reading comic books, and speak, read, and listen to only Spanish for the rest of the summer.

Yep. That's definitely what I should do.

ETA: 9:15 am: Garden watered. Voicemail left for everyone who hasn't called me back yet. Feeling accomplished. Still don't want to go shopping.

I need to write on my curriculum vitae-in-my-head that I actually have a much better phone voice than I remember myself as having. Working tech support for two years straight was really good for my ability to leave perky-sounding messages, even if what I had to say was not so happy.

ETA 2: A sure sign that I am not taking myself seriously is that I stick drabbles into previous entries.

( Robin needs a Robin. )

ETA 3: I suppose it is better to know that the answer is, "Thank you for playing," rather than wondering.

At least now I only feel defeated instead of defeated before I've begun.

I could really use some unreality right about now, but I haven't got the attention span for it.

I wrote both of these for shrift.

Title: Crowd Control
Rating: G
Acknowledgments: Sivi contributed a great deal of hand-holding to the creation of this story.
Disclaimer: They're not mine.
Summary: Ms. Bertinelli, alias "Huntress," contemplates the complicated aspects of her quotidian existence. This is the short, amusing, gen one.

( Crowd Control )

Story title: Diverting attention
Rating: Appropriate for teens, in a The Graduate sort of way.
Spoiler warnings: None plotwise, though it follows Batgirl #59.
Acknowledgements: siviusx is almost entirely responsible for this thing. If it hadn't been for her, it wouldn't have happened, especially not quite like this.
Summary: Lady Shiva visits Blüdhaven and gives her former students a lesson. This is the longer, creepy, not-gen one.

( Diverting attention )