29 Chimera Court, Friday Morning

[on_her_korhal]

Where the Queen of Blades usually slept, upstairs in a bedroom taken haughtily from her fellow tenants, there was now a little pile of blankets. Underneath them was a girl, twenty-something years old, curled up into the foetal position. She had her hands pressed to her chest.

She was sobbing quietly. The covers shook a little under the motion of it-- and the sound she produced was desperate, ragged, and very, very human. Somewhere in her psyche, an alien queen slept soundly, burrowed far away from the surface.

Eventually, her alarm rang, emitting the dulcet tones of a good Kenny Rogers number.

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[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Y-you think so?" she asked, pulling back a little to look up at him with earnest, if a bit moist, green eyes. She'd left a large splotch on Aquaman's costume, too, but that looked like it could deal with a bit of waterworks. "I don't think I like that very much."

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Just a bit of waterworks, yes. As far as encounters went, this was actually still pretty on the dry side.

He gave the Leuitenant a small, encouraging smiled as she pulled back, rubbing her shoulders a little for comfort. He knew she had a softer side in there somewhere! He just knew it! "I don't either," he admitted, "but life isn't just the good stuff! What's important is that we take all that grief and pain and try to use it for good! Not evil! Take my good friend Batman. His parents are dead! But he uses that to fuel his desire for justice! He does it a bit more...broodingly for my tastes, but, by guppy, he's one of the best superheroes out there!"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

Kerrigan took a long, hard look at his face, and contemplated that.

"...My parents are dead too," she whimpered, and promptly pressed her face back into Aquaman's shoulder. Look what you did, Aquaman. Shame on you!

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

He was only trying to help!

"But that's okay!" said Aquaman, patting her back again. "Mine are, too! I couldn't be king of Atlantis if my father was still alive; they say the parents pass on so that the next generation can reach their full potential, you know!"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I was nine," Kerrigan hiccuped, finding that Aquaman's big, strong chest was a relatively nice and warm and comforting place to be, even if he smelled a little bit of fish. "And it's my fault."

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"You musn't think such things!" said Aquaman with insistence, still patting her back. "That is a mighty big blame for small nine year old shoulders."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"But it's true," she wailed, "I did!" Sinking into that hug now. Nice hug.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Aquaman really was good with hugs. It was true.

"Surely not!" he said. "I'm sure there were...extenuating circumstances."