Two AB drabbles for you all

[mhalachai]

Two AB drabbles for the abvh100 challenge of the week, Weapon of Choice. Yes, I'm a Fatboy Slim fan.

Title: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Characters: Anita, Asher
abvh100Challenge: #55 - Weapon of Choice
fanfic100 Prompt: 078 -- Where?
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. Only the story is my own.
Rating: PG
Note: Takes place at some point after Cerulean Sins, in which Anita and Asher became intimate.

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"Where did you learn to fire a handgun?" Anita asked, sprawled on the couch in Jean-Claude's office.

Asher blinked. Should he tell her how he first picked up a gun after he heard Jean-Claude had taken a human servant? Of the many cold months in France, firing repeatedly into the practice target, fantasizing of killing Jean-Claude's human servant, making him hurt as much as Asher hurt when Julianna died, when Jean-Claude's failure murdered her?

Asher looked at Anita, warm and alive and innocently curious. He forced a smile. "Modern handguns are like revolvers, cherie. I learned long ago," he lied.

~~*~~
Title: Cutting Smile
Word Count: 100
Characters: Nathaniel
Challenge: #55 - Weapon of Choice
Note: Occurs at some point around Incubus Dreams. No spoilers.

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Nathaniel smiled at the women waiting for him outside Guilty Pleasures. The smile held the right mix of shyness and sex appeal and confidence. It was his "take me home and keep me safe" smile.

Fumbling, one woman asked for his autograph, and he added puzzled surprise and delight to the smile, bending a little closer to her, making it much more personal. Nathaniel knew she'd be back soon, with more money to hand to him as he undressed.

For the longest time, Nathaniel's looks were the only weapon he had. He still wielded them like a cutting blade.

Comments

Interesting

[fishpankakes.livejournal.com]

Quite interesting little drabbles there. The one for Nathaniel made me think back to your recent chapter of Inevitable, which I just read this morning. It made me a little sad to think of his beautiful hair gone...for the moment and what he's going to do with his future now.

Asher...ah poor Asher, the world revolves around him as always. Interesting take on such a side note. Makes me wonder how the conversation came up?

Re: Interesting

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

As for Nathaniel, even strippers must move on. Normally, you don't keep your looks forever. Yeah, Nathaniel will, but that's not the point. I wonder if JC has set up some kind of post-stripper-job fund for the boys.

As for the Asher/Anita one... (Funny how that abbreviates to AA) in my mind, Anita was just free associating. Not many of the vamps in JC's line are up to date on weaponry, that we've seen. And, since I'm in a strange mood, I made Asher's motivations for learning to shoot a little less than honorable.

Re: Interesting

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Nathaniel, of course, will become a psychologist and a famous one, making millions from self-help books with titles like Furries and the Humans Who Love Them.

Asher: Yeah, I can see that being his motivation to pick up a gun. And what a mental volte-face it must have been for him when his motivations changed.