Damian adjusted his hat and swiped his hand over the sweat beading at his forehead as his little half-sister pulled him merrily through the crowds.
“Look, Dami, another princess!” Helena gasped as though they haven’t stopped for a dozen autographs already, and she dug into her Minnie Mouse themed backpack for the autograph book filled with fake signatures.
Glad to have his hand to himself instead of tightly wrapped around Helena’s, he wiped his sweaty fingers on his jeans, vaguely annoyed. The ‘princess’—Jasmine from Aladdin, this time—was crouching to Helena’s level by the time he decided to take any interest in his little sister’s excitement.
As ‘Jasmine’ touched Helena’s Minnie Mouse headband, Damian couldn’t help but watch the fluid way she moved, the way her bound hair reflected the sweltering Florida sun—he would almost swear it wasn’t a wig.
“Brother!” Helena shouted, and ‘Jasmine’ noticed him for the first time, her green eyes crinkling with curiosity and maybe a hint of something else as she took him in. “Take a picture!”
As he held the camera out in front of him, he got the distinct feeling that the smile ‘Jasmine’ gave was meant not for the closed pages of Helena’s scrapbook, when she completed it, but that it was especially for him.
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Ships Adrift in a Strong Tide
FanficA collection of all the demonfire one-shots I've written in the past, finally collected and posted in one place. Features different POVs, different continuities, AUs and canon divergences. No plot connection from chapter to chapter. All chapters are...
