Recurring Memes

[odditycollector]

I'm a little bit panicked/swamped at the moment.

So, distract me! Give me a character or two and prompt, and I'll write you a line or two of fic.

(No, I will! My track record for mini-mini-fic memes isn't actually bad.)

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Character: Kara

Prompt: "Family"

(I am SHAMELESSLY shmoopy.)

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Kara flipped to the last page of the scrapbook. A large newsprint copy of a flying, fire-breathing anaconda chased a smaller figure in Supergirl's colours. "And that," she said, grinning at Jimmy, "is how you father and I fell in love." Jimmy smiled back at her.

On the armchair across the coffee table, James Olsen Junior sniffed and crossed his legs. "Last week," he said, unimpressed, "you guys said you fell in love when some invading aliens trapped you in the negative phantom zone and you had to escape using nothing but thoughtwaves and an imaginary salamander."

"And the week before that," his sister added, "it was when the Supergirl Emergency Squad was brainwashed by Dr Psycho and Dad trapped them in a special camera Mom made." Ally Olsen pulled the scrapbook closer to her, considering the photo thoughtfully. Jimmy had always said it was one of his best, and although Ally maintained that she was going to become a world famous chemist*, she had inherited his eye for photography.

"And this morning," said Jimmy, "when your mother was absentmindedly mixing the pancake dough too fast and it cooked before it hit the stove. Sometimes that's just how it goes." Kara turned to him and he kissed her lightly.

Ally and James rolled their eyes and groaned. But before they could make sarcastic comments, Streaky the Supercat landed on top of the scrapbook with news of a radioactive sea monster threatening the city, and Kara, James and Ally had to fly off to save the day.

* "Like Lex Luthor!" she had announced, after Luthor had given a particularly inspiring speech to her 9th grade class. It turned out that Luthor was wearing a tie that hypnotized his audience into believing everything that he said, but even after the effects wore off and Kara had returned the money the students stole from the bank, Ally sulked until her parents got her a chemistry set. And, when she blew that one up, another one.

It was somewhat worrying.