Current mood:

nervous

Booooooooooooooostle
Soooo...the Boostle has taken over my brain, yes? And I am working up to actually writing a fic of substantial length, but since I've never really written in comics fandom before and am inexplicably terrified by it, I have snippets instead. These may be terribly OOC and just all around sucktastic; concrit (for what little there is) is very much welcome, for those of you who know the fandom (or who don't, whatevs). So. Yes.

This one falls somewhere after Justice League: Classified um...4? I think? Or something. For those who haven't read it, basically Sue Dibny threatens to call Booster's wife (Gladys, a multi-millionaire 30 years older than him) and tell her that Ted and Booster are sleeping together if they don't stop talking about Sue's supposed pregnancy. This is CANON, folks. *glee* Also, MAX IS NOT EVIL. GRRR.




On reflection, perhaps throwing the baby shower had been taking it a step too far.

Booster was an intriguing shade of red at the moment, rounding out his primary colors scheme, and clearly quite perturbed. Max had never seen anyone actually physically tear their hair before. “No! She’ll kill me! She’ll have me drawn and quartered! She’ll…cut off my allowance!”

Sue gave him a Look, one of the best in her collection and Max thought for the umpteenth time that no one who wasn’t a supervillain should be able to pull off a Look like that. “I warned you.”

“She did,” Ralph agreed, nodding sagely and looking profoundly grateful that he had had nothing to do with the baby shower and thus was escaping the wrath of Tsunami Sue. “She warned you.”

Ted groaned. Sue shot him another Look – make that the umpteenth and one – but he didn’t see her, what with his head buried in his hands and all. “What if the media finds out?”

Hmmm. “Gay is very in right now…” Max mused, but Booster was nearly purple at this point and he figured it was probably best not to bring up the sudden idea he’d had for interlocking actions figures at this juncture.

“Gladys, hi! Sue Dibny. Yeah, the Elongated Man’s wife. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. You’re kidding! Mmm-hmm.”

“Whatsshesayingwhatsshesayingwhatsshesaying?” Booster hissed, but Sue swatted him away, flylike, and he returned to tearing his – frankly silly-looking, if Max was any judge, which he was pretty sure he was – hair.

“Mmm-hmm. Listen, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…your husband and his friend Ted? Oh, no, they’re fine, they’re just…well, more than friends. Yes, that’s exactly what I mean.”

Booster let out a strangled squeak. Ted moaned in counterpoint. Max reflected that these were not the best noises for them to be making together, were they intent on disproving Sue’s point.

Sue’s eyes and mouth suddenly went perfectly round. “Oh. Oh.”

“What?” Ralph asked, but Sue swatted him away too. Booster and Ted stared at Sue, twin torture victims.

“Yes. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Well, it was nice talking to you. We definitely should. I will. Bye, now.” Sue hung up, then turned to her computer and, to all intents and purposes, began to check her email. Booster made a strangled noise.

“Well?” Ralph asked after a moment.

“Well what?”

“What did she say?” Ted asked, a vein in his neck throbbing interestingly.

“Oh. She said she already knew.”

Silence. Everyone took turns blinking.

“She…knew?” Booster asked finally, and for all his experience with metas Max hadn’t known that humans could turn that particular color.

“Yep. Known for years, she said, ever since the JLI. She doesn’t mind. In fact, she thinks it’s kinda hot.” Sue pursed her lips thoughtfully. “Which, I have to say…”

Ralph winced, which for Ralph amounted to pulling all his facial features halfway in. “Sue!”

Characteristically, Sue ignored him. “In fact, Ted, she said any time you want to stop by and join in…”

Ted followed Ralph’s lead on the facial features thing, which was impressive, as the Elongated Man he wasn’t; however, Max was pretty sure he was doing the same.

“She…knew?” Booster was still shaking his head incredulously. “How could she know? I didn’t know!” He frowned. “Ted, did you know?”

Ted shrugged. “I had no idea we were sleeping together.”

“It’s not very fair, is it?” Booster asked. The bounce seemed to have come back to him. “I mean, all these years we’ve been having an affair, and neither of us reaping the benefits!”

“And by benefits you mean…?”

“Benefits!”

“Ah.”

“This should be rectified.”

“Your plan?”

“Benefits.”

Booster’s bounce had spread to Ted, if the way he sprang out of the chair was any indication. “Lead on, married man.”

And before anyone could lift a finger, elongated or otherwise, they were out the door.

Sue, Ralph, and Max exchanged a three-way glance that probably wouldn’t have worked without Ralph’s stretchiness. “They’re not really going to…” Sue said.

“They wouldn’t just…decide…to…” Ralph said.

“I mean…”

“Just because Gladys…”

“And they had to know everyone already thought…”

Another three-way glance.

“Hmm.”

“Indeed.”

“Well,” Max said finally, “like I said, gay is very in right now…”

He’d have to have L-Ron look into those action figures after all.







And this one falls...pretty much any time that Booster's wearing the yummy skintight costume and not the stupid Armor of Manly Macho Testosterone Power, With BALLS. Because. His pants are REALLY SHINY. I would be in Ted's position ALL THE TIME.



“…Ted?”

“Mmm?”

“What are you doing?”

“…Um.”

“Are you…were you staring at my – “

“No! I was. Um. Checking my hair. Your pants are really shiny, you know th -“

“…You’re wearing your cowl.”

“Yes, well…um…oh my God!”

“What?”

“Is that a supervillain?”

“Where?”

“Over there! Behind that…ficus. Thingy.”

“…”

“I think he has a ray ass.”

“…”

“Gun! Ray gun.”

“…”

“You’d better get over there. And…stop him. Before he commits any sodomy.”

“…”

“Villainy. I said.”

“Ted…”

“Are you gonna stop him or what?”

“There’s no villain over there, Ted.”

“…There could be.”

“…”

“You go check. I’m just gonna…go to the bathroom.”






Also, a sketch! 'Tis not done. Booster's arms will be moved, and Ted will gain hands. Also, there's more to them than that, but the scanner couldn't fit it all. Because they're BIG men, you know? *eyebrow waggle* Okay, I'm done now.