Oh noes, it's ... fanfic?

[weewarrior]

Most people who know me know that I don't really write fanfiction, partly because I'm a stickler for canon and don't really like to be jossed, and partly because, well, I have a writer's block about as huge as the Himalaya which makes it a raging achievement if I manage to write as much as a shopping list. The closest I came to writing something in my most "active" fandom over the last few years was some of the work I did for MI.net, namely the biographies of Cassidy Casablancas and Mercer Hayes. (These contain spoilers for Season 2 and Season 3 of Veronica Mars, respectively.)

So, how did this entry come about, then? Well, I suppose I might have infected selenak with one (or two, or three, or ten) Heroes plotbunnies (completely accidentally of course) and so she demanded that I should at the very least make up for that by writing two lists we talked about in connection to two Heroes characters and their respective long-suffering wives - and posting them here in my journal.

As it were, this is the first one:

Twenty things Noah Bennet is not allowed to use as a rationalization for mindwiping his wife Sandra

1. "I did it all for Claire."


2. "I did it all to protect you."


3. "The Company I used to work for stood for something, but it has been corrupted."


4. "I didn't know the Haitian's power could physically harm you."


5. "Lyle is still young, I'm sure it wasn't harmful for him, and it was only this one time."


6. "But I only used it when you saw something unusual concerning Claire or other superpowered people,never when it would have been otherwise convenient."


7. "The mind wipes were never the easy way out instead of telling you what was really going on."


8. "You may have been scared every time I send a strange man into your house, but I always made sure he made you forget about that, too."


9. "This isn't a sign that I don't trust you enough, or that I'm emotionally distant from you."


10. "I never avoided simply talking to you because I was afraid that you would leave me if you knew the truth."


11. "I never made the Haitian erase the memory of anything or anyone really important."


12. "The Haitian always could have stopped erasing your mind if he had thought it too harmful. Always."


13. "I didn't want to harm you. It seemed so much responsibility, I thought sharing it would be unfair to you.


14. "I never did it because I wanted to be the most important person in Claire's life, the only one who knew her secret."


15. "I didn't do it because the older she got, the more this became my only means of having some control over the situation."


16. "It wasn't because sometimes I wasn't sure you wouldn't betray Claire to the company if you knew."


17. "I did it because you - the family, all of you - deserved a normal life."


18. "It wasn't because you often get so absent-minded, I wouldn't have trusted you not to tell the milkman, or the guy at the gas station, or a judge in one of Mr.Muggles' contests."


19. "I did it because there was no other way."


20. " I didn't do it because at the end of the day, the thought of losing her hurts me more than the thought of losing you."

Comments

[adinarj.livejournal.com]

Hahaha!! Oh, grim, that's great! Most are hilarious and made me giggle.

Except the last one. That one's too close to what might be the truth. And that's not funny at all. But it doesn't make it any less awesome.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

I wanted this to be a mixture between somewhat amusing and vaguely uncomfortable, and ending it on a rather ambiguous note seemed fitting because what he does to her is pretty horrible, no matter how good some of his reasons might be. Given how much Claire means to him, it seemed only consequent to think it through the whole way.