For the sake of the children... (cont.)
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jla_watchtowerThe auction is heating up. Some of the items have fetched handsome prices from anonymous bidders via cellphone proxies or the organization's website. The next item due on the auction block is a limited-run Flamebird figure (Bette might recognize it - she got a box of them for her birthday earlier this year).
But this is San Francisco, and it's almost Christmas, and when the Titans are around, something is almost guaranteed to go wrong.
And it does; quickly, suddenly, and loudly, in the form of a huge Santa sleigh, replete with animatronic reindeer, crashing through an adjoining wall from the set of a movie being filmed just outside.
But this is San Francisco, and it's almost Christmas, and when the Titans are around, something is almost guaranteed to go wrong.
And it does; quickly, suddenly, and loudly, in the form of a huge Santa sleigh, replete with animatronic reindeer, crashing through an adjoining wall from the set of a movie being filmed just outside.
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Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 04:01 am (UTC)From the look on her mother's face, this is expected to be Beth's final Christmas.
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 04:18 am (UTC)"Glad you're having fun, sweetie. I know Beast Boy couldn't make it, but he's the one teaching me how to do things like grow wings and stuff."
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 04:40 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 04:55 am (UTC)Fauna puts her hand on the girl's. "Maybe you can answer something for me. I've learned a lot about what it means to put on this kind of costume, risking my life for others, helping out when things go crazy."
She looks at the T-shirt before continuing. "But I don't know why little girls and boys look up to folks like the Titans so much. Maybe you can tell me?"
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 04:59 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:01 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:03 am (UTC)Mrs. Campbell bites her lip and turns away, pressing her hand to her mouth.
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:13 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:15 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:26 am (UTC)"It's easier to give up or be selfish if you aren't tied to those around you. If someone loses touch with the community and the people in it, they lose touch with reality and don't understand why it's important. Talking to you and your brother...it puts faces and names on those we help. Keeps us from getting too big for ourselves and thinking we're better than others."
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:30 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:32 am (UTC)Of course, she won't forget this little girl - not any more than she would forget baby River.
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:36 am (UTC)"Hey," says her brother. He displays a Beast Boy action figure. "Lookit what Flamebird and I found."
Beth cheers. "You got it back!"
In that moment, in her eyes, her brother is her hero.
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:38 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:39 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:51 am (UTC)Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:57 am (UTC)"Um." She fidgets in her wheelchair. "Tell him ... tell him I think he's really cool?"
Re: Some time later....
Date: 2006-12-22 05:59 am (UTC)