Kidnap Buddies EP2 - P1
A fic in which intrepid reporter Lois Lane and artistic madman John Doe (who in another timeline would have been the monster known as Joker) have a friendship inspired by unique circumstances.
Updated every other day at 9 pm.
Mentions of Batman x Joker and Superman x Lois
Against Lois’s sworn promises to herself to never like anything relating to high art or from Gotham- she liked John Doe.
He was fun to talk to, and she never felt guilty talking over him because he talked at least as much as her. He’d call, they’d get coffee and then let the other ramble about whatever was on their mind.
He was an “ only sometimes” friend. He’d only hang out when he was around for a show, and they called every few months. But she valued his colorful and occasional presence all the same.
It was a sunny day in Metropolis when she asked him a question that absolutely bewildered him. They were sitting in an outside table with a plexiglass covering and a fun bright red-shade umbrella springing from the middle. Lois was drinking a nice green tea she couldn’t taste to calm her nerves and soothe the oncoming headache. John was drinking a bright yellow smoothie drenched in caramel that had probably been near fruit sometime in it’s life.
"Can I ask you for relationship advice?"
"Come again?"
John had been downing his smoothie at breakneck speed and his sudden move to look up at Lois took his straw with him.
"Look, I just came back from one of the worst bachelorette parties I've ever had to attend. I've been to a few now, and a lot of them make me sick to my stomach. Either some girl is throwing her life ambitions away to become more palatable for her new beau, or some harpy is rubbing it in my face that she's hit the marriage milestone before I have.
This one was a major harpy. I shouldn't have gone. We were always competing when we were in school and we haven't gotten any better. She was flaunting her promotion and fancy house in my face too.
It makes me want to grab the closest guy and have a bigger fancier wedding just to shove it in her face. But I don't even know if I want that- that's just spite talking. I'm on a reporter's salary. A well respected reporter, but respect doesn't get you an $100,000 wedding with doves released at the vows. And commitment gives me hives.
Like, I know I exaggerate. I know my friends aren't completely giving up their lives for men. Relationships are about compromise, but I'm very picky about my lifestyle and what I do everyday and the thought of giving up any of it makes me gag. I can't help but think I'd fight tooth and nail for everything to go my way and I don't know if that's suitable for a relationship- but it's me. It's how I function. It's what gives me such an edge. I can't give that up.”
But you're at least as picky and pushy as I am, if not worse. And you're married and you're still traveling all the time and pursuing your passions, and I want to hear about it. I want to hear about one of the few relationships that doesn't make me want to stab the nearest bachelorette in pearls with a plastic spork. I want to hear something that helps me clean the bad taste of "Janet from Berkeley”, who has to have zinnias incorporated into the bachelorette dresses" off my tongue. And if you're feeling charitable I'd love to hear how you pulled off the hat-trick of getting that relationship."
John froze like a stunned rabbit before taking a long slip of his smoothie and leaning back.
"We've already reviewed the fact that Bruce and I met in an asylum? Correct me if I'm wrong."
Lois nodded,
"A relevant piece of information that you have not expanded upon"
"And we have both acknowledged that I have a certain patchwork of knowledge from being institutionalized that makes it hard for me to recognize what being healthy or sane is?"
"Dodging the question."
"They're disclaimers. Because if you want to follow my exact formula to hook a guy it goes a little something like this:
1. Trap yourself in a situation where you have an abundance of free time and you don’t really relate to anyone around you. Let yourself soak in that. Get a little desperate.”
2. Get extremely bored
3. Use gossip rags and daytime talk shows as coping mechanisms for your loneliness and lack of accessible drama. Really get to know the cast of characters that show up in those stories.
4. Pick one guy from the gossip rags who’s just a little more sullen then the rest, who acts slightly off.
5. Obsess over that guy. Get to know any piece of accessible public information about him while trying to find what makes him tick. Find out every way he’s warped.
6. Convince yourself that if you ever met that man that you’d be friends. Convince yourself that he’d understand you better than anybody else. That you’d just meet and click.
7. Manipulate circumstances so that man goes to the exact place you are and is reliant on your very specific skills.
8. Meet him. Save his life. Fuck around and get more attached and obsessed than before even though that should be in no way possible. Freak him out a little by being too intense
9. Make a big and potentially life threatening career change and drag him into it. Let him manipulate you if that’s the reason he’s willing to come.
10. Screw up that possible career change by deciding to choose him and his goals over everything else.
John had been counting on his fingers and had to re-close his hands to allow the count to keep going.
11. Freak out when you think he’s betrayed you and nearly kill him. Realize too late that you were being unreasonable and clingy and setting your expectations too high. Realize you’re pathetic and that he probably doesn’t see you as anything more than a tool or someone to pity.
12. Get lucky and find out that he’s just as lonely and clingy and messed up in the head as you are and that he’d do anything to keep the one friend he’s had in an extremely long time.
13. Make yourself available so that he can talk to you almost all the time even though it hurts to see him after all you’ve been through together. Talk to him a lot. Be a sounding board.
14. Do everything you can to get a personality outside of him so you feel more like an equal and less like a pet or accessory. Get sane, get functional, get your own job and group of friends.
15. Get him to therapy because he’s being a massive hypocrite.
16. Ignore all signs he might be attracted to you for years because you’re worried you’re getting into fan-obsessed hero worship again.
17. Have your friends inform you that from an outside view a guy who shows up to all of your shows, gives you gifts just because he was feeling like it, and laughs at your warped sense of humor might be in love with you.
18. Marry him.
“That’s it. It’s simple really.”
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