Claire-Watch (A Claire/Elle fic for the heroes_contest 'Cravings' challenge)

[aunt_zelda]

Title: Claire-Watch
Rating: PG-13 ish …
Word Count: 775 (approximately … gimme a break, the play opens next week!)

Pairing: Claire/Elle (one-sided … for now)
Summary: “Don’t let her see you … no more confrontations, young lady!”

Disclaimer: I do not own Heroes. If I did, Mohinder would be making out with SYLAR instead of Maya in that promo clip, thank you very much!

A/N: Yes, Elle DID spy on Claire at Claire’s old high-school in Texas. (Elle got Haitian’d after threatening Zach, and got beat up by Eden after a run-in with Mr. Muggles and the sprinklers, I kid you not!) It’s in Graphic Novel #63 and 64.

*slump* Ok, it's already tomorrow, but I DID finish this! *staggers off to bed* It's probably awful, and I haven't written femeslash in AGES, and even when I did it wasn't very detailed and ... *headdesk* I'm going to bed now ... affffffffffffffffffffffffffafffjlajfg;g;lkaeo ...

Prompt: "Cravings" (http://community.livejournal.com/heroes_contest/)

 

(Edit: August 5th, 2008: this won 3rd place! Thank you to everyone who voted for me! *blushes and beams*)

 

Linkies posted to

heroes_contest and elle_claire

 

 

 

Elle craves a lot of things. Most she takes automatically, without asking (and if there’s protest, hey, that’s what electricity is for.) Elle’s a big fan of instant gratification and doesn’t see the point of winning a prize and not enjoying it then and there.

Which is why Elle is having such a goddamn difficult time with a certain teenage girl whose name rhymes with ‘bear.’

 

Last year Elle was sent on her first assignment: Claire-Watch. “Someday you might be taking orders from her …” her daddy had told her after handing her Claire’s file. Elle snorts at the memory: like hell.

Still, ever since that boring-ass stint at Union Well’s High School, Elle’s mind has never completely drifted away from the blond pipsqueak.

Actually, Elle realizes one day as she’s spying (again) on Claire (this time in California), if she had to think of one word to describe the little cheerleader, it would be ‘cocktease.’ Of course, Elle doesn’t have a cock, but if Elle did, she’s certain that Claire would give her an erection the size of the Eiffel Tower.

Which is why, when she sees Claire heading for her on day at the coast, she purposely spills her slurpy on herself – looking all wide-eyed and embarrassed as she does – so that she and Claire can have a face-to-face chat.

The following exchange – Claire looking all intense and threatening Elle and her daddy – is totally worth Elle’s stained shirt. Couldn’t keep your hands off me, could you, sweetie? Elle thinks to herself later on, giggling out loud.

 

After the ‘Sylar-fiasco’ (her dad’s words, not Elle’s) Elle is put back on Claire-Watch. Even after Noah Bennet dissuaded weepy, earnest Claire from going public, the Company wasn’t letting their guard down, strained as they were with agents disappearing, turning on the Company, or being killed by mistake.

Though it wasn’t as boring as last time, Elle wasn’t allowed the treat of spending entire hours in the same room as Claire. “Don’t let her see you … no more confrontations, young lady!” were Bob Butler’s exact words.

So Elle has to restrain herself. She can’t grab Claire, tie her up in a hotel room, and spin a shiny little lie that this is what the Company ordered …

So instead, Elle gets creative.

 

When all the Bennets are away at school and work, Elle finds the hide-a-key, opens the door, and wanders the house to her heart’s content.

If the stupid dog is being a nuisance, Elle simply locks it in a closet or the brother’s room. (She’d tried to make nice with the fluffy little thing, but it just didn’t like her. What did dogs know, anyway? He’d probably snapped and growled when Sylar paid the family a visit last year in Texas …)

Elle spends these midday hours in Claire’s room, burying her face in the pillows on her bed; or in the laundry room, digging through the baskets until she found an item of clothing that belonged to Claire and breathing in the girl’s scent.

Once, when she’s feeling particularly daring, she takes a shower in the upstairs bathroom and used Claire’s shampoo and conditioner. For days afterwards she can close her eyes and daydream of a pair of perfect pink lips hovering over her.

It’s around this time that Claire begins to haunt Elle’s feverish, blurry dreams. It’s nauseating and arousing all at once, but Elle is used to those combined sensations by now.

Elle’s tempted to steal Claire’s blue cheerleading outfit and watch from afar as the little brat tears apart he house searching for her precious uniform.

Instead she parks outside the stadium during a football game and watches the girl cheer. Even through binoculars, seeing Claire in that tight blue number makes sparks flicker from Elle’s hands.

 

Maybe one of these days Elle’s daddy will decide Claire’s too much of a risk and order Elle to bring her in.

Maybe Elle will get to train Bennet’s little angel. (Bennet’s kept in a cell most of the time. Sometimes Elle visits him, and their conversations vary from taunts to Claire-tales to reminiscings on Claude – Elle misses the invisible man almost as much as Bennet does.)

Maybe, because the ‘one of us, one of them’ set-up has been falling apart ever since Bennet put a couple bullets in Claude, Elle and Claire will go out on missions together.

Maybe Claire will break down and warm up to Elle, see the older girl in a different light after some thrilling chase …

Maybe Elle won’t have to take what she’s been craving: maybe what she craves will come to her.

 

 

Comments

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

No this turned out quite well! =D And I'm not much on femmeslash either, but you write it really good! =D

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Oh, thank you, PJ-kun!

(I find it mildly disturbing that the characters I have the easiest time writing are psychopathic murderers. Re: Sylar, the Master, Elle ... gonna try my hand at the Joker soon ...)

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

You're more than welcome, Zel-chan! =D

lol don't feel bad, I don't find it all too hard to write Sylar or others similar either. =P The Joker? lol why not? (But omg tju_tju_tju_tju wrote a Dark Knight/Iron Man fic which was Bruce/Tony, genres which I never read in and I was like OMG! AND! I found a Nathan/Tony Stark fic and it was good! =O))

In other news...I finished the next prompt for the heroes_contest. "late" Are you working on a fic for it too? It's a post-S2 Peter/Isaac of all things. =P I mean, I have always vaguely shipped it, but I just never expected that be what I wrote. So when you get the chance will you read it? It's posted on my ff.net account, on my LJ page and heroes_contest of course.

I can't thank you enough for also getting me interested in heroes_contest! =D First Doctor Who, now this. What's next? lol *huggle*

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm, sounds intriuging ... I tend to read all the fics in one day (the day of voting) and then comment and vote and such ... I'll TRY and read yours as soon as I can ... *regrettably must go to bed REALLY soon*

Of course I'm doing the prompt! Not quite sure what I'll be writing ... I'm toying with the idea of a Claude/Noah flashback and Claude thinking bitterly about Peter, pre-V3/post-V1 ... *shrugs*

I can't thank you enough for also getting me interested in heroes_contest! =D First Doctor Who, now this. What's next? lol *huggle*
Nawwwwww, you're welcome PJ-kun! *huggles you back* (Thank YOU for getting me into Death Note! *must buy another as soon as possible*)

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm, sounds intriuging ... I tend to read all the fics in one day (the day of voting) and then comment and vote and such ... I'll TRY and read yours as soon as I can ... *regrettably must go to bed REALLY soon*))
That's fine! Read it when you can. No uber rush. =P

Of course I'm doing the prompt! Not quite sure what I'll be writing ... I'm toying with the idea of a Claude/Noah flashback and Claude thinking bitterly about Peter, pre-V3/post-V1 ... *shrugs* ))
Sounds pretty good. I couldn't believe I wrote a Peter/Isaac fic though, lol. XD

Nawwwwww, you're welcome PJ-kun! *huggles you back* (Thank YOU for getting me into Death Note! *must buy another as soon as possible*))
Aww! THAT was no problem. If I can convert another fan to Death Note, then I've did my job. ^_~ I need to buy another too. I'm only missing 2 and 3 now. =P

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe I wrote a Peter/Isaac fic though, lol. XD
Surprising yourself is fun, innit?

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

It is! =D Makes me wonder what I might write next. O_o XD

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I've written some STRANGE pairings ... like Claire/Monica, and Claude/Adam ... *giggles* that Rapid-Fire Drabble challenge was a BLAST ...

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

lol. Well actually Claude/Adam actually makes a kind of weird kind of sense to me...I have a theory...I also found an awesome Claude/Adam fic by accident on guanin's page. =P

I imagine it WAS a blast!

eee the Olympics is coming on! My patriotism is coming to the surface! USA! USA! USA!

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

lol. Well actually Claude/Adam actually makes a kind of weird kind of sense to me...I have a theory...I also found an awesome Claude/Adam fic by accident on guanin's page. =P
I might have read that ...

I imagine it WAS a blast!
All those drabble-challenges ... *beams fondly at the memory* I loved using all those different pairings ...

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

I haven't finished it yet, well actually I just barely started on it. I'm still catching up on some fics. =P

I bet you did!

And oh! OMG! I SEEN IRON MAN YESTERDAY!!!!! *dies from the awesome*

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

And oh! OMG! I SEEN IRON MAN YESTERDAY!!!!! *dies from the awesome*
So ... I should definately see that movie, y/y?

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yes! OMG YES! See Iron Man, and then see it again!!!!!!! GUH...SO...AWESOME...ksdfhskdfjskdfjsdkjkdskjdjkf!!!!!!

[bellonablack.livejournal.com]

I love this pairing. :-)

"Elle spends these midday hours in Claire’s room, burying her face in the pillows on her bed; or in the laundry room, digging through the baskets until she found an item of clothing that belonged to Claire and breathing in the girl’s scent."

...Perfectly. Obsessive. XD No, this kind of desparate craving, you caught it perfectly.

"The following exchange – Claire looking all intense and threatening Elle and her daddy – is totally worth Elle’s stained shirt. Couldn’t keep your hands off me, could you, sweetie? Elle thinks to herself later on, giggling out loud."

I don't know, struck me as a great characterization, the reliving aspect of her personality...it's like she has so little really. :/

Great. <3

-BB

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

(Sorry it took me a while to get back to you, Shakespeare play and all ...)

Claire/Elle just ... I can see it. I heard people were pairing them, and then it just CLICKED for me.

...Perfectly. Obsessive. XD No, this kind of desparate craving, you caught it perfectly.
*blushes* Why, thank you very much!

I don't know, struck me as a great characterization
I write insane killers FAR too easily ... *worries about mental state. But thank you all the same! *flourishy bow*

the reliving aspect of her personality...it's like she has so little really. :/
Who's to say she's imagining things? *grinz* I really, really, REALLY want Claire to come out and start going out with May, captain of the cheerleading squad. I have no idea WHY, but I DO ...

Again, thank you very, very much for your wonderful comment!

[tessykins.livejournal.com]

OMG, yay! Yay so hard.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (It's for this community: http://community.livejournal.com/heroes_contest/ *dashes off to vote*)

[tessykins.livejournal.com]

*dashes off too*

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

I love it! Even if it was one-sided!
Amazing fic!

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! (Well, seeing as Elle can't talk to Claire, we don't really know if it IS one-sided ... personally I want Claire to canonly be a lesbian, but that's just me.)

[poemwithnorhyme.livejournal.com]

How have I not read this? *feels bad* Well, I am now! It's so good too! I adore Elle's characterization in this, it's simply perfect. And the image of Bennet and Elle reminiscing about Claude is almost too much, I adore it!

You're awesome and totally deserved that award! I won't be able to reply back to your comment on my fic any time soon, so I just wanted to say now how much it means to me that you commented, since I haven't seen you around lately (I've disappeared from the Fandom too, so...*whistles innocently*) Thank you!

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

It's ok, I haven't been keeping up with what YOU'VE been writing (granted, once the Shakespear play was over I had to book flying lessons and plan Doctor Who marathons and suchlike things, so it's a surprise that I managed to write this.)

I adore Elle's characterization in this, it's simply perfect.
I write psycho killers who stalk their signifigant others FAR to easily ... *sigh* this should disturb me, but I'm beginning to get used to it.

You're awesome and totally deserved that award!
*blushes* Oh, you are too kind, but thank you all the same!

I'm sorry I haven't been around latley (Shakespeare, etc.) but I really haven't been keeping up with Mylar since, um, for a few months or so, actually ... too many fics to read, not enough time, and then I was shanghaied by the Doctor/Master crowd and ... yeah, Doctor Who took over for a good bit of the time I've been 'missing' ... now I'm re-watching S1 of Heroes though, in preparation for V3. (THREE HOUR PREMIERE?! *so excited*)
No no, thank YOU!

[alexfoster451.livejournal.com]

Very well done. Thanks for sharing!

~ Alex

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!