FIC: Captcha and misc ficlets pt III

Fandom: Watchmen
Date Written: 2009
Summary: Ficlets. The first 4 are really small microfics, a self-issued Captcha challenge of 'I can relate anything to zombies', and are therefore all zombie!verse. The 5th is an AU of the zombie!verse(I AU'ed my own AU, I know, I know), also a Captcha fic, not posted elsewhere. The 6th is just a bonus bit of non-Zombie, non-angsty, slashy fluff.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for language. Language in #2, politics in #3, imminent character death in #5(but it's only AU, so it's okay D:), Dan/Ror slash and teeth-rotting sweetness in #6.

#1 - Prompt: 'doves 44c'
( It's hot. )

#2 - Prompt: 'quarter stickups'
( He may as well be robbing quarters from gumball machines. )

#3 Prompt: 'overrule 1,630,000'
( It's a ridiculous euphemism, but it's not like the word 'zombie' was ever going to show up in a city council bill. )

#4 Prompt: 'learned appetites'
( He doesn't like heavy food. )

#5 Prompt: 'serum 11-'
( They're holding him down, threading fresh leather bindings over his arms, his wrists, his ankles – around his throat. )

#6 'Uncomplicated' - Prompt: This Picture
[Because after that last one, I needed to cheer myself up. D:]
( These are things for ordinary people. )

FIC: Marking Days

Title: Marking Days
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Dan, Rorschach, Dan/Ror UST.
Date Written: 2009
Summary: Can you call it waiting if there's nothing to wait for?
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for some morbid/disturbing imagery. Also: AAAANNNGSTTT. Sorry.
Notes: Another kinkmeme fill. Prompt was as follows: "So, we've seen fics where Rorschach is made to think that Dan is dead, but in every case Dan pops back up within an hour to show he's alive and all is well. I want to see a fic where pre-Roche Rorschach is forced to deal with Dan's "death" for an extended period of time, several weeks or months. Maybe Dan is being held captive and his captors are doing a very convincing job of faking his death so Rorschach won't figure it out? Dan can be hiding out in a plothole for all I care. I just want to see the kind of toll this would take on Rorschach. (Cause him to snap ahead of schedule, perhaps?) And have Dan have to clean up the mess when he comes back."

( –and everything changes. It may not be instantaneous; it may not be a switch thrown, a button pressed, but it has its roots in this moment: )

FIC: Enough (Adult Content Warning)

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FIC: Prisoners

Title: Prisoners
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Dan, Rorschach.
Date Written: 2009
Summary: Skin-on-skin is its own confession, and we are all caged.
Rating/Warnings: PG. Not actually slash, despite the summary. Nothing offensive at all, as far as I can tell.
Notes: Kinkmeme fill, prompt was for Rorschach's reaction the first time Dan unmasked.
Clarification: (Because I'm paranoid) When the word 'man' is used in this, it is not meant in a gender-loaded way, but in the more general sense of 'human being'.

( He couldn't name the melody, put a label on the pitch and timbre of the notes, but he knows: this is wrong. )